Webinar | Environmental, Social, and Governance: What Oil Professionals Need to Know
Register by April 28, 2025
What is environmental, social, governance (ESG) investing and how does it impact the oil industry? In this session, we will unpack what ESG really means, how ESG ratings work, and the pros and cons of ESG from corporate and investing perspectives.
Learning objectives
- engage in critical thinking about ESG compliance and ESG investing practices
- understand how to evaluate ESG ratings and the interests of financial institutions that offer ESG funds
consider the corporate interests in ESG compliance
This session will be held through ON24.
For any questions about this event, please contact [email protected].
About the speaker 
Ellen Wald, PhD, is an experienced lecturer and former professor of history. She has a PhD in history from Boston University, where she studied business history and researched American and British oil companies in the Middle East. She is the author of the authoritative book on Aramco, Saudi, Inc.: The Arabian Kingdom's Pursuit of Profit and Power and a contributor to Bloomberg, the New York Times, and Barron's. She recently co-founded the energy advocacy firm Washington Ivy Advisors and continues to take on select clients through her consulting business, Transversal Consulting. She is a fellow at both the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Center and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute and the author of the SAGA Wisdom course: A Starter's Guide to ESG, Energy, and Climate.