Graduate students from the University of Oxford proposed financing to help beekeepers scale and expand practices that drive biodiversity conservation which secured the top prize in the 2021 Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge.
A team of Christ Church students designed the BeeBank & Brokerage financial instrument to address Sustainable Impact Challenges for the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Challenge.
The team’s strength lies in their interdisciplinary skillset, as they come from financial, agtech, public health, and sustainability practice backgrounds, with a shared interest in making the future more sustainable.
They joined the Challenge to suggest a feasible, scalable, and replicable model that addresses agricultural, ecosystemic, and social issues that our food system is facing in the face of global pollinator loss.
Noah is an MBA student at SBS, formerly an investment banker with experience in development finance, Annabella is a former sustainability consultant pursuing her Ph.D. in Sustainable Finance at the Smith school, focusing on ESG and nature-related risks to businesses, Emilė has international public health, policy, and nutrition experience, and is pursuing her PhD in Neuroscience, while Dawn is currently a Skoll Scholar pursuing her MBA at SBS, who has a background in beekeeping and is embedded in the US’s pollination space, where BeeBank & Brokerage expects to launch its pilot.
