The Three Cairns Climate Fellowship at Columbia Business School awarded fellowships to its second class of 19 MBA and EMBA students who completed eight projects at the intersection of climate change and business during the 2018-2019 academic year.
The fellowship was endowed by Lise Strickler ’86 and Mark Gallogly ’86, and launched in the spring 2018 semester. Their recently established family office, Three Cairns Group, has a core commitment to making investments in decarbonizing the world economy.
The fellowship provides support to MBA and EMBA students who complete semester- or year-long projects. Students may apply individually or in teams for projects that work with Columbia research faculty, or any type of organization or business in the U.S. or abroad that is addressing sustainability and climate change issues. Projects focus on using markets and business knowledge, skills, and tools to identify and implement solutions to mitigate, adapt to, or reverse climate change and its impacts.
The following fellows were selected from a larger applicant pool after submitting their applications:
Brookfield Renewable Energy Group
Project: Mapping Opportunity in Energy Storage
Team members: Lawson Curtis ’19
Community Energy
Project: Deep Decarbonization of Northeast Electric Grid Generation
Team members: Angelica Crispino ’20, Jung Hyun Lee ’19, and Marek Slobodnik ’19
Enhanced Capital
Project: PACE Financing
Team members: Karen Forster ’19 and Julia Reibelt ’19
Lightsmith Group
Project: Climate Resilience & Adaptation Growth Investment Mapping
Team members: Matt Ale ’19, Daniel Gutierrez ’20, Greg Rives ’19, and Anjalika Singh ’19
Mosaic
Project: Global Market Assessment: Opportunities and Approaches for International Expansion
Team members: Sam Maxfield ’20, Anand Satchidanandam ’19, and Vikram Sridhar ’20
Plentify
Project: Turning Water Heaters into a Global Distributed Battery
Team members: Mukul Gupta ’19 and Rajat Gupta ’20
Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank
Project: Resilient Rhody: Innovative Financing for Climate Resilience Projects in Rhode Island
Team members: Kaitlin Butler ’19 and Mucka Gantumur ’19
World Wildlife Fund
Project: Resilient Mozambique
Team members: John Plaisted ’19 and Rob Zochowski ’19
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