Wood, David

(Director, Initiative for Responsible Investment and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts) David Wood is the director of the Initiative for Responsible Investment (IRI) at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Current projects include work with pension fund trustees on responsible investment policies, mission investment by foundation endowments, research on the changing nature of the supply for and capacity to receive capital for community investment in the US, and a global survey of the relationship between public policy and impact investment. His recent work includes the publication of the Handbook on Responsible Investment Across Asset Classes (Boston College, 2007), the development of a Responsible Property Investing Center, establishing a field definition in sustainable emerging market SME investment, and research into the investor use of corporate reporting on non-financial information. He was elected in 2008 to the Board of the Social Investment Forum. Before he came to the IRI, he taught the history of ethics, including the history of economic thought, at Boston University. He received his Ph.D. in History from the Johns Hopkins University.