Join the Salata Institute and Harvard Business School’s Business and the Environment Initiative on Feb 5th, to hear from Oliver Badenhorst, MBA ’20, Principal, Boston Consulting Group, and Naomi Davy, AB ’20, Associate, Coho Climate Advisors, and Emma Howe, Senior Sustainability & Climate Change Consultant, Deloitte, reflect on their career, education, and current work in climate and sustainability consulting.
Location: Harvard Business School Aldrich Hall Classroom 108 – 35 Harvard Way, Boston, MA 02163
Time: 6-8pm
Oliver Badenhorst MBA ’20 is a Boston-based Principal with the Boston Consulting Group, focused on strategy projects in the energy sector, primarily for renewable energy developers, utilities, and energy OEMs. He was a member of the HBS class of 2020 and, immediately following his MBA, joined GE’s Offshore Wind business, where he led proposals for the sale of the Haliade-X offshore wind turbine. Oliver additionally holds a Bachelors of Law (LL.B) (J.D equivalent) and Bachelor of Commerce (BComm) in Finance from the University of Queensland.
Naomi Davy, BA’22, works as a sustainability consultant at Coho Climate Advisors, with the ERM group. Coho is a renewable energy, climate, and water advisory firm that supports companies in reaching their sustainability targets. She has worked there since 2022 after graduating with a bachelor of arts in social studies from Harvard College. During her time in undergrad she studied environmental law and justice and wrote her thesis on environmental impacts of gentrification in Washington, DC (her home town where she currently lives and works). Prior to working at Coho she worked as an intern with Dream.org (fka Dream Corps), a non-profit started by Van Jones which focuses on facilitating a just climate transition. There Naomi served as a policy analyst, researching legislation that favored energy justice in underserved communities. Before her work with Dream.org she interned with the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada developing an implementation plan for the use of public lands in Nevada.
Matteo Gasparini is an External Advisor for Sustainable and Climate Finance at McKinsey & Company and a Climate Fellow at Harvard Business School’s Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS) and Associate Fellow at the University of Oxford. His research delves into the financial economics of sustainability and climate change. He investigates this line of inquiry through both empirical and theoretical studies. His work was cited by The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.
Dr. Gasparini holds a DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford. His undergraduate and graduate education were in economics and finance. He has also served as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. in London and at the World Bank.