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David L. Levy
Professor, Department of Management
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Academic Co-Director, Sustainable Solutions Lab
Founder and Director, Center for Sustainable Enterprise and
Regional Competitiveness
Dr. David L. Levy is Professor of Management in the College of
Management at
David is currently Academic Co-Director of the Sustainable Solutions Lab, and along with
colleagues researches climate resilience finance and equity. In April 2018, SSL
published a report authored by David, ‘Financing
Climate Resilience: Mobilizing Resources and Incentives to Protect Boston
from Climate Risks’.
Previously, David founded and directed the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and
Regional Competitiveness, whose mission is “to foster a transition to a clean, sustainable, and
prosperous economy.” The center engages in collaborations among businesses,
universities, and policymakers to advance research and education.
See David’s CV for full list of
publications and selected downloads. He also maintains profiles on http://um-boston.academia.edu/DavidLevy and google
scholar.
David is frequently invited to lecture on the topic of climate
change, urban resilience, and business and finance to policymakers, business
and academic audiences. He has delivered presentations to a business forum in
Berlin, a municipal finance conference in Detroit, a workshop of United Nations
delegates in New York, and seminars at Cambridge, LSE, Manchester, Warwick, and
MIT.
His recent media appearances include:
Boston Neighborhood News Network
4.6.2018. 10 minute segment on Climate
Resilience Finance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxGhMj6Saak
Living Lab Radio NPR WGBH/Cape and
Islands 4.11.2018 broadcast 4.15.2018 http://capeandislands.org/post/no-free-lunch-when-it-comes-coastal-resiliency#stream/0
Bloomberg Baystate Business 4.16.2.18.
106.1 FM in Boston with Peter Barnes. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2018-04-16/bloomberg-baystate-business-bank-of-america-nift-flooding
Featured in
Boston Globe article on climate resilience: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/04/12/umass-report-cautions-billions-needed-for-local-climate-change-preparations/yWd2khQxMei8DNzUhrATkM/story.html
David
has conducted extensive research on corporate strategic responses to climate
change in the US and Europe, and financial strategies for urban resilience.
David is also interested in the political economy of globalization and
contested processes of governance around environmental and social issues.
David
co-edits the blog Organizations
and Social Change which provides insightful commentary and analysis around
issues at the intersection of business and society, such as sustainability,
workforce diversity, economic development, and globalization. He was also
founding editor of Climate Inc., a blog devoted to discussion
of business and climate change.
David is Associate Editor for Business
and Society,