Clark Alumna Maria Egan is the 2019 PRME Alumni Award Recipient
Clark University’s Graduate School of Business (GSchool of Business) recognized Maria Egan ‘08, MBA ‘09, with its 2019 Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Alumni Award. The annual award, presented as part of the University’s commitment to this United Nations-supported initiative, recognizes an alumna or alumnus whose career or volunteer efforts focus on responsible leadership, ethics, social responsibility, sustainability, and/or positive change in communities.
Egan is a portfolio manager and shareholder engagement manager for Reynders & McVeigh Capital Management, LLC. She works with individuals, families and organizations to implement investment strategies while helping them understand their portfolios through financial literacy. Egan provides research expertise in the burgeoning private impact investments space, where capital is allocated to prove that measurable social impacts can be coupled with financial returns. She also directs the Firm’s shareholder engagement, which includes submitting shareholder proposals to companies and participating in industry peer groups, and she was featured on Bloomberg Radio speaking about the Firm’s socially responsible investment strategy.
Apart from her career, Egan has run the Boston Marathon in support of the St. Francis House, which provides shelter and rehabilitation programs for the homeless. She is also a volunteer home builder for Project Mexico and St. Innocent Orphanage.
PRME was created in 2007 as a platform to raise the profile of sustainability in schools around the world, and to equip today’s business students with the understanding and ability to deliver change tomorrow. As a voluntary initiative with more than 650 signatories worldwide, PRME has become the largest organized relationship between the United Nations and management-related higher education institutions.
GSchool of Business became a signatory to the PRME initiative in 2011, strengthening its commitment to education, research, and collaboration that fosters sustainable social, economic, and environmental change.
By Meredith Galena
Communications Specialist, Academic Adviser
Graduate School of Business, Clark University
