SEED PhD student wins 1st prize at Concept Graduate Student Fund

Congrats to Majid Mirza for winning first prize win at the Concept Graduate Student Fund. This year, the Concept Graduate Student Fund received twenty four impressive applications from Masters and PhD candidates, as well as postdoctoral fellows across all six faculties. From those, eight were invited for an in person interview and three were awarded prizes.

Majid Mirz (SUSM PhD candidate) is looking at new ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) legislation, disclosure, compliance and reporting requirements for investment managers as well as widely adopted responsible investment frameworks like the UNPRI, SDGs and B-Corp. As part of this research, he is assessing whether these regulations and frameworks can be aggregated into an automated, cloud-based system for ESG management to serve investment managers and the companies they represent.

The funding received will help Majid and the ESG Tree team to create a minimum viable product to be implemented by a partner who they have signed a letter of intent with. This will enable ESG Tree to start collecting, analyzing and reporting data through this system and go through an R&D process to improve their product before full commercialization. They are aiming to commercialize on a year timeline, which was greatly accelerated as a result of this big win!

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