Monika Freyman, Guest Blogger

Monika is manager of the Water Program at Ceres, a non-profit advocate for sustainability leadership in Boston. She researches and conducts corporate and investor engagement on the risks and opportunities related to growing water scarcity and water quality issues.

Prior to Ceres, Monika worked as a research consultant for the Initiative for Responsible Investment at Harvard, exploring the roots of the concept of sustainability across a broad spectrum of disciplines to inform the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB) in their efforts to evolve corporate reporting standards.  She was also commissioned by the pioneering socially responsible investment firm, Trillium Asset Management, to formulate a strategic approach to entering emerging markets with an environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment lens. Previous to this work Monika was an emerging market analyst at Driehaus Capital management and Trans-National Research.

Monika holds a Chartered Financial Analyst Designation and a Masters of Science degree in Aquatic Ecology and has recently published her research in the Journal of Biological Invasions. She also enjoys working with the Massachusetts Audubon Habitat Education Center’s Outreach program, teaching students about their local watersheds