Books By Amy O'Brien - Author

Amy O'Brien is the Global Head of Responsible Investing at Nuveen, the asset management arm of TIAA.

Amy was studying biology as an undergraduate at Boston College when the 1992 Earth Summit sparked her passion for sustainable solutions impacting the environment. She became interested in the role that the private sector can play in advancing sustainability and the connectivity between science, policy, and economics.  During a graduate school internship at the Council on Economic Priorities nearly 30 years ago, she was able to apply that early interest at a pioneering company in the field of corporate social responsibility research and ratings. 

Amy's unique perspective is informed as a member of the "bridge generation," whose career has spanned collaboration with industry pioneers and early adopters (NGOs, faith-based institutions) in the 1990s and 2000s, and into the current global commercialization wave and expansion into the "mainstream."  Amy has deep ex