ESG Leaders Video Series: Goldman Sachs’ Sheila Patel

The latest in RI’s series of interview with ESG experts

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“The tipping point right now is clients themselves.”

The words of Sheila Patel, chair of Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

“This crisis, this pandemic, has really put ESG in a different frame for clients,” she says in the latest ESG Leaders video interview.

“It’s not a luxury, social purpose is not a luxury. The same is true of the corporates that we deal with, the companies that we invest in.”

 

The other videos in the series include:  

•        NN Investment Partners’ Valentijn van Nieuwenhuijzen

•        MSCI’s Remy Briand

•        Sustainalytics’ Michael Jantzi

•        Wespath’s Dave Zellner

•        WHEB’s George Latham

•        Morningstar's Libby Bernick

•         ISS ESG’s Marija Kramer

•         UBS’s Michael Baldinger 

•         Aegon’s Brunno Maradei

•         DWS’s Michael Lewis

•         Unigestion’s Fiona Frick 

•         Fidelity’s Romain Boscher