Linda-Eling Lee

Linda-Eling Lee is the founding director and head of the MSCI Sustainability Institute. She previously led global ESG and climate research at MSCI, where she built one of the world’s top teams of analysts dedicated to understanding long-term drivers of sustainable value. Ms. Lee joined MSCI in 2010 following its acquisition of RiskMetrics Group. She received a doctorate in organizational behavior from Harvard, holds a master’s degree from the University of Oxford, and has a bachelor’s from Harvard College.

Sustainability, AI

Harnessing AI to make climate adaptation investable

Climate finance has so far largely focused on putting money into efforts to cut carbon emissions. The MSCI Sustainability Institute set out to find the businesses needed to respond to the increasingly unavoidable impacts of a hotter world.

Linda-Eling Lee and Linda-Eling Lee
March 7, 2025