Divya Chandra is an 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. 

Divya has research interests in measuring financial performance alongside Environmental Social and Governance factors and has contributed to the research of the Impact Weighted Accounts Initiative at Harvard Business School and of the Tufts University Investment Office, developing impact monetization tools. Divya has also co-designed a course in advanced accounting and finance applications at The Fletcher School working with key finance faculty.

In her corporate career, Divya has global experience with Barclays Bank in the UAE and Singapore managing wholesale credit risk for portfolios across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. She undertook financial consulting assignments at Nimai Capital, CRISIL (an S&P Global Company) and provided assurance-based services at KPMG in India. 

Divya is a Master of International Business from The Fletcher School, Tufts University and a Chartered Accountant from India.

Notable Publications: 

• Complementary Solutions for Holistic Impact Valuation: Return on Sustainable Investment (ROSI™) and Impact-Weighted Accounting (IWA) (Report, October 2021) 
• The Role of Private Equity in the Decline of a Major Forest Products Company: A Case Study (December 2021)