Sarah Adams

Chief Sustainability Officer & Co-Founder at Vert Asset Management

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Sarah is Chief Sustainability Officer and co-founder at Vert Asset Management. Vert was founded to bridge the gap between financial services, capital markets, and environmental advocacy. Sarah leads on engagement at Vert which is three things – dialogue with the companies we invest in, advocacy with regulators and government, and being a model sustainable business.

Sarah has a multidisciplinary experience across the finance sector and environmental policy. Before Vert, Sarah started a consultancy educating financial advisors on sustainable and impact investing in the UK and US. Previously, Sarah worked on social finance initiatives for advocacy NGOs in the UK at the WWF and Forum for the Future. She started her career in institutional finance at Dimensional Fund Advisors and Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo (GMO).

Sarah is passionate about sustainability education for financial services. She is a teacher for the Chartered SRI Counselor (CSRIC) and she sits on the USSIF Education Committee. She earned the CFA UK Certificate in ESG Investing and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board's FSA Credential.

She has an MBA from Johns Hopkins University BA in History from UCLA (US), a MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development from University College London (UK), and a MA in Environmental Law from SOAS (UK).