Madhavi Venkatesan Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
Madhavi Venkatesan is a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. Her present academic interests are specific to the integration of sustainability into the economics curriculum, and she is currently pursuing scholarly interests in sustainable economic development. She serves as the executive director of Sustainable Practices, a 501(c)3 nonprofit she founded in 2016. Sustainable Practices is focused on increasing financial and economic literacy to facilitate sustainability and thereby promote environmental and social justice as well as economic equity. Prior to re-entering academics, she held senior-level positions in investor relations for three Fortune 250 companies. In this capacity, she was a principal point of contact for investors and stakeholders and was instrumental in the development of socially responsible investing strategies and corporate social responsibility reporting. She started her financial services career after completing her postdoctoral fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis. She earned a PhD, MA, and BA in Economics from Vanderbilt University; a Masters in Environmental Management from Harvard University; and a Masters in Environmental Law and Policy from Vermont Law School. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the subject of sustainability and economics as well as the text Economic Principles: A Primer, A Framework for Sustainable Practices and forthcoming Foundations in Microeconomics, A Framework for Sustainable Practices and Foundations in Macroeconomics, A Framework for Sustainable Practices. She was recently granted the Fulbright-SyCip Distinguished Lecturing Award to the Philippines where she will give lectures in the host country in February 2018 on the role of economics in fostering sustainable outcomes and, ultimately, a culture of sustainability.
