Dr. Yumeng Gao is the Research Director and a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance (YISF). Her research revolves around sustainable finance and focuses on the financial implications of corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices. Her work covers the topics of ESG disclosure, environmental finance, employee relations, impact investing, NGO activism, and socially responsible investing. Her work has been published in the Journal of Environmental Management.
Before joining YISF, Yumeng received a PhD in Finance at University College Dublin in 2022, where she was also an adjunct lecturer of the course Green Data Science.