Giamporcaro, Stephanie

Stephanie Giamporcaro is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) and a Research Associate at the Environmental Economics Policy Research Unit housed in the School of Economics of the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her research program focuses on the analysis of the implementation of sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) approaches in Africa. She lectures on SRI in the GSB MBA program and in the Mphil of Development Finance launched by the Africa Growth Institute and the Cape Town Graduate School of Business. From March 2009 to December 2010, she pursued a post doctoral research at EPRU on SRI in South Africa.

Her research interests are in social studies of finance, anthropology of market and consumption, economic sociology, carbon finance and responsible and sustainable investment studies. In 2005, she edited an academic research book on Sustainable Consumption titled 'Pour une autre consommation'. In July 2006, she obtained a PhD in Social Sciences co-funded by the French State and by the research centre Novethic on the SRI movement in France.

During six years (2002-2007), she was the head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment Research for Novethic, a professional research centre on Sustainability that is located in Paris, France. Novethic is a subsidiary of Caisse des Dépôts, one of the biggest French public investment groups. She was in charge of the different qualitative and quantitative surveys released by Novethic. She was also consulted by French responsible investors on their sustainable and responsible investment strategies. Her corporate and academic background gives her an in depth knowledge and expertise of the Sustainable and Responsible Investment Field.