Center for Sustainable Business | Our Team

Tensie Whelan (NYU ‘80), Distinguished Professor of Practice for Business and Society, is the Founding Director of the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she is bringing her 25 years of experience working on local, national and international environmental and sustainability issues to engage businesses in proactive and innovative mainstreaming of sustainability.

Alison Berg is the Associate Director of Communications for the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she leads communications strategy, manages stakeholder outreach, and supports public event programming.

Divya Chandra is a Senior Associate Research Scholar at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, and is developing and executing monetization methods used in the application of the ROSI methodology across a diverse set of Industries. 

Elyse Douglas (Stern ‘83) is a Senior Research Scholar at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business and has responsibility for monetization methods used in the application of the ROSI methodology.

Chisara Ehiemere is the Senior Research Lead, Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI™) at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she oversees our ROSI methodology research partnerships with companies.

Maggie Hutchison is the Associate Director of Operations for Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business where she manages the CSB budget and grant reporting, administers strategic plans and KPI tracking, leads the database and information systems management, and oversees staff management.

Aishwarya Jadhav is an Associate Research Scholar at the Center for Sustainable, where she focuses on developing and implementing monetization methods within the framework of the Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI) methodology across a wide range of industries.

Claire Kells is the Associate Director of Development and Events for the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she develops and executes the Center’s strategic fundraising initiatives and events. 

Marianna Koval is the Director of the Invest NYC SDG Initiative at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she manages a team engaging in the private sector to drive financing toward creating a more sustainable, inclusive and resilient New York City. Using the UN SDGs as a guiding framework, the team is developing investable projects to advance NYC’s sustainability goals in waste, food and health, climate resilience, renewable energy, the built environment, and sustainable mobility.

Randi Kronthal-Sacco (Stern ‘83) is a Senior Scholar of Marketing and Corporate Outreach at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. Ms. Kronthal-Sacco leads CSB’s research in the areas of marketing and brands including the Sustainability Market Share Index™ and is responsible for corporate outreach.

Mariah Maldonado is the Assistant Director for the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she provides a high level of strategic, logistical and operational assistance to the leadership of the CSB and manages planning for events, conferences and programs for student educational and career development activities.

Abigail Talcott-Schlaifer is the Managing Director for the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she has responsibilities across the management of CSB, oversees curriculum development and student programming, cultivates and maintains relationships across internal and external constituencies, and provides high level strategic and logistical support to the Executive Director.

Beverly Teng is an Assistant Research Scholar at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she supports CSB’s Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI) research and company engagements. 

Alexander Steding became a Visiting Scholar at the Center in June 2024, where he is collaborating with Randi Kronthal-Sacco on expanding the Sustainability Market Share Index to include the UK and German markets. He is currently in his second year as a PhD candidate at the University of Bremen and holds a doctoral scholarship from the Foundation of the German Economy.