Brandon Juvani

About Brandon Juvani

Professional Interests: Sustainable Finance | ESG | Sustainability | CSR | Effective Altruism | Evidence-based Policy | Global Health & Development | M&E | Philanthropy | Research | Data | Poverty | Existential Risks I am a Finnish-American dual citizen and a recent graduate of Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), where I completed a graduate policy STEM program focused on economic development. While at SIPA, I gained experience in international financial institutions, multilateral development banks, multiple entities within the United Nations system, sustainability, and ESG finance. Post-SIPA, I’m now most interested in working to help organizations become more evidence-based, data-driven, and as maximally effective and sustainable as possible. My professional interests concern ensuring optimal allocations of capital, whether that is through ESG, sustainable finance, and impact investing in the private sector or in strategic grantmaking, impact measurement and management, impact evaluation, M&E, and cost-effectiveness or cause prioritization research in the development sector. Before SIPA, I had graduated cum laude from Columbia University in 2020 with a bachelor\'s degree in sociology. There, I was a nontraditional and first-generation college student from a low-income and working-class background. I transferred after taking a gap year and attending community college in my hometown of Orlando. Before transferring, I graduated summa cum laude with an associate\'s degree; worked at an INGO in Washington, D.C, while attending George Mason University in an exchange program; and completed a service year in AmeriCorps at an affordable housing nonprofit. While attending Columbia as an undergrad, I worked abroad at a startup social enterprise in Mumbai, studied abroad in both Santiago de Chile and Paris as a U.S. DOS Gilman Scholar, and became involved in impact consulting and effective altruism organizations on campus. Upon graduating and during the pandemic, I worked on U.S. political campaigns.

Experience

1. Esg Research Analyst

   Iss Institutional Shareholder Services

   Jan 2025 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Analyzing management and shareholder proposals and developing proxy voting recommendations for our institutional investor clients based on best practices in corporate governance according to ISS benchmark guidelines and our six ESG specialty policies: Taft-Hartley, Public Fund, SRI, Catholic & Faith-based, Sustainability, and Climate • Conducting in-depth research and analysis on ESG topics, corporate governance, executive compensation, and various proposals by reviewing ISS benchmark and specialty policies, precedent, corporate disclosures, company filings, proxy statements, and regulatory documents• Writing updated summaries of ongoing material ESG controversies to be included in shareholder reports and proxy voting recommendations

Education

• Columbia | SIPA

  Master of International Affairs

  2022 — 2024

• Stanford University

  Residential Program

  2020 — 2021

• Columbia University in the City of New York

  Bachelor of Arts (BA), Cum Laude

  2017 — 2020

• Universidad de los Andes (CL)

  Study Abroad

  2020 — 2020

• Seminole State College of Florida

  Associate of Arts (AA), Honors Diploma, Summa Cum Laude

  2014 — 2016

• George Mason University

  Exchange Program

  2016 — 2016

• Lake Mary High School

  High School Diploma

  2009 — 2013

• Reid Hall - Columbia Global Centers | Paris

  Summer Study Abroad

  2019 — 2019