Hardik Shah

Hardik is a sustainability-focused leader with more than 15 years of experience spread across Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) research and investing, climate change and carbon credits advisory, and business intelligence domains. As a part of Ogier Global's Sustainable Investment Consulting team, Hardik helps provide a wide variety of sustainable investment solutions to clients.

Background and experience

Prior to joining Ogier, Hardik was responsible for building GMO's global ESG capability across investment product areas and asset classes. His efforts included creation of GMO’s proprietary country ESG model as well as the company-level GMO ESG Score, helping various investment teams with their ESG integration and engagement efforts, and designing Fund level ESG reports for various strategies.

At Sustainalytics he led a global team of analysts focused on ESG ratings and thematic research. Previously, he was an ESG Ratings associate at MSCI and, as a senior climate change consultant with Ernst & Young, has helped register a wide variety of carbon credit projects with the UNFCCC under the Clean Development Mechanism defined in the Kyoto Protocol.

Hardik regularly volunteers with the CFA Institute as well as the CFA Society Singapore. He is a member of CFA Institute's ESG Technical Committee and has also been actively involved in reviewing, updating, and co-authoring new ESG-related content for the CFA as well as CFA Institute’s Certificate in ESG Investing curricula.