Next Teale Lecture: Robert Litterman, Kepos Capital
We are Not Pricing Climate Risk, A Wall Street Perspective
Thursday, March 5, 2020 at 4:00pm - Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Konover Auditorium
Please join us for the next lecture in the Edwin Way Teale Series on Nature and the Environment, featuring Robert Litterman, PhD, of Kepos Capital, L.P.
Applying Wall Street risk management practices to climate change, Robert Litterman has been a leading proponent of introducing a carbon tax to reduce carbon while balancing the Federal budget. In his presentation, Litterman will discuss how policy instruments can reduce fossil fuel use and explain how our current policies are not adequately reflecting the magnitude of the risk.
Litterman is a founding partner and chairman of the risk committee at Kepos Capital, a New York-based investment management firm. Litterman founded Kepos Capital with Mark Carhart, Giorgio De Santis after a 23-year career at Goldman Sachs, where he served in research, risk management, investments and leadership roles. He earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota, and in 2012, he was the inaugural recipient of the S. Donald Sussman Fellowship at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
One of the original inductees into Risk Magazine’s Risk Management Hall of Fame, Litterman was named the 2013 Risk Manager of the Year by the Global Association of Risk Professionals. Litterman currently serves on the boards of World Wildlife Fund, the Commonfund, Options Clearing Corporation, Resources for the Future, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation. He is also on the Advisory Committee of the Partnership for Responsible Growth, which advocates for pro-growth tax policy addressing the challenge of climate change with carbon-funded tax cuts.
Teale 2019-2020: https://cese.uconn.edu/the-edwin-way-teale-lecture-series/
Sponsored by the Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Office of the Vice President for Research, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, School of Business, Graduate School, College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources, School of Engineering, School of Fine Arts, School of Law, Institute of the Environment, Atmospheric Sciences Group, Center for Environmental Sciences & Engineering, CLAS Shared Services, Center of Biological Risk, Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation, Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, Connecticut Sea Grant Program, Environmental Sciences Program, Environmental Studies Program, , Human Rights Institute, Humanities Institute, Office of Environmental Policy, Honors Program, Connecticut Institute for Resilience & Climate Adaptation and UConn Library, as well as the Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Economics, English, Geography, Geosciences, History, Natural Resources & the Environment, Political Science, and Physics.
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