Speeding up risk capital allocation to deliver net-zero ambitions

David Keto is managing prin-cipal of SRI Group, a respon-sible investment consulting firm. Prior roles include chief operating officer for New Tower Trust, the bank trustee for the Multi-Employer Property Trust, a multi-billion-dollar so-cially responsible real estate fund. Prior to that, he served as chief operating officer for the AFL-CIO Investment Trust Cor-poration and as general counsel and chief of staff for the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust. He also served as undersecretary for the Massachusetts Executive Officer of Economic Affairs and as special counsel to the Boston Redevelopment Authority. He holds degrees from Princeton University and Yale Law School. Scott Hobart is chief investment officer at Mercator Partners, a sustainability-focused asset manager based in Princeton, New Jersey. Mercator invests across public equity markets globally with a focus on identi-fying sectors and business models that support the urgent need to decarbonize asset-heavy industries. The investment pro-cess at Mercator draws heavily on insights from academia and national laboratories. Benjamin Finch is an undergrad-uate senior in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton Uni-versity. Ryan Winkler is an under-graduate junior in the Depart-ment of Economics at Princeton University.