Experts & Staff

Shally Venugopal is a Research Associate with the Environmental Intelligence for Tomorrow’s Markets objective of the Markets and Enterprise Program, and coordinates the Institute’s work on catalyzing private climate investment.

Her past research focused on the financial implications of climate change from the perspective of the corporate and investor community. Research areas included: the impacts of environmental trends on shareholder value in emerging markets, portfolio risks for financial institutions, credit impacts of environmental trends, and corporate environmental disclosure.

Prior to joining WRI, Shally worked in Morgan Stanley’s Microfinance Institutions Group where she was responsible for client and capital markets coverage of South and Central Asian Microfinance Institutions, and in Morgan Stanley’s Public Finance Division, covering U.S. domestic public sector infrastructure clients. Her prior experience includes working at the Penn Institute for Urban Research, L.E.K. Consulting and Bearfoot Investments.

Shally, a native Singaporean, graduated with a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, with concentrations in Finance and Mathematics.