Julie Anderson Professorial Lecturer Management
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Dr. Julie Anderson brings over 25 years of global asset management expertise to her role at Â鶹Æƽâ°æ's Kogod School of Business, where she serves as Director of the Master of Science in Sustainability Management (MSSM) program. As a distinguished business strategist specializing in ESG and Sustainability, Dr. Anderson combines extensive industry leadership with academic rigor to prepare students for careers at the intersection of business and sustainability.
Industry Leadership
Prior to joining Â鶹Æƽâ°æ in September 2023, Dr. Anderson held senior leadership positions at several of the world's most prestigious investment management firms:
At BlackRock (2022-2023), she served as Director and Head of iShares US Sustainable ETFs, where she led the overall strategy for index-based sustainable ETFs with $58 billion in assets under management, managed a team of strategists, and provided strategic business reviews to the executive committee.
As Director of Business Strategy, Investments at Invesco (2016-2019), she led a team redesigning the firm's global equity platform ($41 billion Â鶹Æƽâ°æM) and designed and implemented enterprise-wide ESG integration plans while serving as a brand spokesperson.
At PIMCO (2012-2016), Dr. Anderson was Senior Vice President and Strategist for Global & Emerging Markets, where she managed a $170 billion business platform and created the company's flagship monthly publication, The Global Update, which reached 85,000 clients worldwide.
Her earlier roles at T. Rowe Price International (1997-2011) included Vice President, Emerging Markets Sovereign Analyst/Portfolio Manager, where she helped increase emerging market assets under management from $800 million to $10 billion. During her tenure at T. Rowe Price, she also served as a Municipal Bond Trader and US Economist.
Teaching and Academic Leadership
At Â鶹Æƽâ°æ's Kogod School of Business, Dr. Anderson teaches courses in Sustainable Investing, Managing for Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, and leads the MSSM Capstone program. As Program Director, she manages all curricular, programmatic, and marketing initiatives for the MSSM degree program. Dr. Anderson also serves as Faculty Advisor for the Kogod Sustainability Review, where she mentors the next generation of sustainability leaders by fostering student involvement in research and publishing. Finally, together with Dean Marchick, she leads the engagement with Kogod's distinguished Sustainability Advisory Council.
Dr. Anderson previously served as faculty at Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business (2018-2022), where she taught Fundamentals of Valuation and advised the Student Managed Investment Fund, overseeing a $1 million portfolio within the GSU Endowment.
Academic Background
Dr. Anderson holds a Doctorate in Business Administration with a focus on Sustainable Finance from Georgia State University, where her dissertation explored "The ESG Behaviors of Multinational Enterprises: An Exploration of Emerging and Developed Market Norms." She earned her Master of Arts in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University, specializing in Macroeconomics and International Trade, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a Russian minor from the University of Arizona, graduating Magna Cum Laude with Honors.
Her academic credentials are further enhanced by her selection as a Fulbright Scholar, completing post-doctoral work in Sustainable Finance at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Dr. Anderson recently completed professional certificates in Corporate Governance from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and in Business and Climate Change from the University of Cambridge, UK.
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