Madelyn Antoncic

SENIOR FELLOW

Madelyn Antoncic, a former Vice-President and Treasurer of the World Bank most recently was Senior Advisor to UNCTAD on ESG and SDG Reporting; and CEO of SASB. Her experience spans global markets across all asset classes in large, complex, global financial institutions in both the private and public sector. She began her career as an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, followed by various senior market roles at Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital, Lehman Brothers and Principal Global Investors.

Antoncic focuses on the intersection of finance and development. She is known for her leadership in financial innovation including implementation of national climate-related disaster risk reduction and mitigation structures to help emerging and developing economies transfer climate-related disaster and other risks to the markets to enable them to be more fiscally resilient. She has published widely on ESG issues and has served as a judge of Corporate Sustainability Reporting and harmonization competitions for both UNCTAD-ISAR’s and the Asia Sustainability Reporting Summit, respectively. She is an internationally recognized expert on risk management and is the subject of risk management and governance graduate school case studies concerning the Great Financial Crisis.

She is a frequent speaker and key note including at high-level fora such as at the UN General Assembly (UNGA), SDG Business Forum Plenary; the Ministry Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Tokyo, First Annual TCFD Summit; UNCTAD-ISARs; G20 Greening the Financial System: Financing for Sustainable Growth and Development; World Bank and IMF High-level Global Infrastructure Forum on Mechanisms to Increase Infrastructure Finance; the UN Climate Change Summit; The Sandai Dialogue, Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management in National Development Planning.

She is recipient of numerous awards including the Fulbright Scholars Award for International Cooperation and was named among the 100 Most Influential People in Finance; listed among top thought leaders helping shape (and reshape) accounting in 2020 and beyond; and received the Women in Business Distinguished Alumna award, NYU.

Currently she is a Member of the Board of Directors and Risk Committee of ACWA POWER, Saudi Arabia; S&P Global Ratings; FinTech Masala Advisors; and the Board of Overseers of Weill Cornell Medicine. She is a member of the Editorial boards of the Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions; and the Journal of A.I., Robotics & Workplace Automation.

Antoncic holds a Ph.D. in Economics, a minor in Finance from NYU; M.Phil. from NYU; and B.A. from Southampton College. She was an Alfred P Sloan Foundation Doctoral Fellow and was a member of the adjunct faculty at NYU Stern’s graduate and undergraduate schools.

LinkedIn Posts

Turning ESG investing into an opportunity for creating investment flows into emerging, developing and economies

Looking for Answers in all the Wrong Places

Recent Publications

Opinion Piece. Is ESG investing contributing to transitioning to a sustainable economy or to the greatest misallocations of capital and a missed opportunity?

Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions. Is ESG Reporting Contributing to Transitioning to a Sustainable Economy or to the Greatest Misallocations of Capital and a Missed Opportunity”?

Sustainability, Technology and Finance - Rethinking How Markets Integrate ESG. Book Chapter: Efficiently Allocating Capital to Transition to a Sustainable Economy

Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions. “The Global Core Indicators: A Sustainability Risk Management and Reporting Framework

Accounting Today. Bridging the ESG reporting gap to meet the Paris Climate Agreement

Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions. A Paradigm Shift in the Board Room: Incorporating Sustainability into Corporate Governance and Strategic Decision-making Using Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

Social Science Research Network Working Paper. with Geert Bekaert, et.al. Sustainable Investment – Exploring the Linkage Between Alpha, ESG, and SDG’s

Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions. Uncovering Hidden Signals for Sustainable Investing Using Big Data: Artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing

Accounting Today. ESG: A Market Challenge with a Market Solution

Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions. Why Sustainability? Because Risk Evolves and Risk Management Should Too

New York Times Op Ed. Lehman Failed for Good Reasons

Milken Review. Fixing the Hole When the Rain Comes Through. It’s Time to Close the Large Catastrophic Risk Insurance Gap

Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions. Has Too Big to Fail Been Resolved?

Institutional Investor.com, Unconventional Wisdom. A New Paradigm for Closing the Infrastructure Gap

Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions. Key Lessons for Banking Risk Management Following the Financial Crisis