Director, Responsible Investing

Nuveen, a TIAA company

 Sarah Wilson is a Director and member of the Responsible Investing team at Nuveen, the investment management business of TIAA. 

Nuveen’s Responsible Investing team oversees the firm’s holistic RI vision and unified framework across Nuveen and TIAA, partnering with internal stakeholders to implement it in day-to-day business activities. The framework establishes the firm’s overall RI philosophy as well as guidelines for incorporating RI disciplines in investment decisions and new product development. 

Her responsibilities include the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in the investment process across asset classes, with a focus on fixed income. She also focuses on firm-wide climate change initiatives, as well as measuring the social and environmental impact of the firm’s public and private investments. 

Prior to joining TIAA, Nuveen’s parent company, in 2015, Sarah managed corporate sustainability reporting and renewable energy credit portfolios for Green Mountain Energy, a subsidiary of NRG, and helped structure debt financing for renewable energy projects as a summer associate at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. 

She holds an M.B.A. and Master of Environmental Management from Yale University and a B.A. in Economics and Plan II Honors from the University of Texas at Austin. Sarah sits on the advisory board of the Yale Initiative for Sustainable Finance.