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2025 IEN Virtual Forum: Session Recordings

Thank you for joining us at the 2025 Intentional Endowments Network Virtual Forum — a three-day event that brought together endowment leaders, asset managers, academics, and advocates to explore how we can align investment practices with long-term sustainability, equity, and fiduciary responsibility.

Below you’ll find recordings of each session, organized by day and topic. Whether you’re revisiting a conversation or catching up on what you missed, we hope these recordings spark continued learning and action across your investment practice.

Featured Topics Included:

• Systemic Risk & System-Level Investing
  Why long-term value depends on market-wide health, not just firm-level returns.

• Responsible AI & Investor Governance
  How asset owners can shape ethical innovation in an era of rapid technological change.

• Political Risk, Democracy, & Fiduciary Duty
  Understanding how governance affects markets—and what investors can do about it.

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Asset Management
  Performance, fairness, and the business case for inclusive investing.

• Carbon Markets as an Asset Class
  How emissions trading systems are shaping a new frontier for climate-aligned investment.

• Reimagining Stewardship
  Moving from short-term profits to long-term systemic stability.

Day One: June 2, 2025 

Keynote: Systemic Risks & System-Level Investing

• • Jon Lukomnik, Adjunct Professor, Columbia University 

Keynote & Panel: Responsible AI & The Role of Investors

• • Mike Kubzansky, CEO, Omidyar Network

• • Chris Jurgens, Senior Director, Programs, Omidyar Network
  • Lauren Compere, Managing Director & Head of Stewardship and Engagement, Boston Common Asset Management
  • Ananya Mukherjee, Project Manager, Whistlestop Capital
  • Hilary Irby, Chief Sustainability Officer and Head of Impact Strategy, Soros Fund Management

Day Two: June 3, 2025 

Fireside Chat: Addressing Political Risk & Threats to Democracy

• • Lauren Caplan, Director of Governance and Risk Integration, Third Side Strategies
  • Philippe Bolopion, Managing Director, Co-Head of Long-Term Investing, TOBAM

Fireside Chat: Diversity in Asset Management and Advancing Equity in Society

• • Kenneth Jones, SVP, COO, & Chief Equity Officer, MacArthur Foundation
  • Robert L. Greene, President & CEO, National Association of Investment Companies

Keynote: Compliance Carbon as an Attractive Alternative Asset Class

• • Michael Azlen, CEO and CIO, Carbon Cap Management LLP

 

Day Three: June 4, 2025 

Keynote: Investing in Climate Solutions

Visionary Voices

• • Jaylen Spann, Lead Research Associate, Whistle Stop Capital
  • Kathryn Hopkins, Chief Learning Officer, Investature
  • Julianne Zimmerman, Co-CEO, Adasina Social Capital
  • Heather Smith, Head of Stewardship, Impax Asset Management

Panel: Benchmarking Progress & Continuing Momentum with the Endowment Impact Benchmark 

• • Alexandra Chamberlin, Impact Investment Manager, McConnell Foundation
  • Emily Philpott, Associate, BlueMark
  • Georges Dyer, Executive Director, Intentional Endowments Network (IEN)

 

Day Four: June 5, 2025 

Keynote: Board Diversity Language Toolkit

Panel: Climate, Capital, and Fiduciary Duty

• • John Adler, Chief ESG Officer, NYC Officer of the Comptroller
  • Machel Allen, President & Chief Investment Officer, Metis Global Partners
  • Kirsten Spalding, Vice President, Investor Network, Ceres

Keynote: Portfolios over Companies: The System Stewardship Imperative

• • Sara Murphy, Chief Strategy Officer, The Shareholder Commons