Biographies

Marianna Koval is the Director of the Invest NYC SDG Initiative at the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, where she manages a team that is engaging the private sector to drive financing toward creating a more sustainable, inclusive and resilient New York City.  Together, 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. A lawyer, with more than 30 years of experience working in environmental sustainability, public policy, and government in New York City, Marianna has successfully taken on complex multi-stakeholder projects, difficult policy challenges, and brought conflicting interests together to create concrete projects.