Wilson E. Karen

Wilson E. Karen

Visiting Lecturer, EMBA Course: Sustainable Business and Finance Department of Accounting and Finance

Karen is a Visiting Lecturer at the Stockholm School of Economics Riga where her focus has been on sustainable finance, ESG, impact investment and private equity.  In addition to leading work in these areas at the OECD over the past 12 years, she co-led the launch of the Impact Management Platform, which aims to provide coherence on sustainability standards for companies and investors. She serves on the Pictet Group Impact and Sustainability Advisory Board, Chairs the Supervisory Board of the Impact Linked Finance Fund and serves on a number of other boards in addition to working directly with

companies and investors. In 2022, she was selected by the Sorenson Impact Center as a Global Impact Leader.

Earlier in her career she was part of the management team of the World Economic Forum and served as a Senior Fellow at Bruegel and Kauffman Foundation.

She is an Associate Fellow at Said Business School at Oxford University and teaches at other universities in addition to SSE Riga.

She received, with honors, a Bachelor’s of Science in Mathematics and Management from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.