Partner & Director, Sustainable Investing & Social Impact
Toronto
Veronica Chau is part of the global leadership teams for Boston Consulting Group's Social Impact and Climate & Sustainability practices. She focuses on finance, working with financial institutions, philanthropies, and companies to create value through strategies that realize both financial returns and broader positive impacts for people and the planet.
Veronica co-leads BCG’s work on blended and catalytic finance including enabling investors to design and deploy solutions for mobilizing greater financing. She has worked with financial institutions to set and achieve sustainable finance targets and to enable their broader organizations to pursue new commercial opportunities associated with climate or social impact financing.
In addition, Veronica advises leading foundations, public sector development banks, and national governments on efforts to mobilize more financing in support of sustainability and social impact objectives; and has led several of BCG’s efforts on financing resilience and adaptation to climate change. She has worked extensively on broader market-building efforts to advance sustainable financing, including efforts related to data disclosures, market standards, and policies that promote financing.
Veronica is a Fellow at the Munk School of Public Policy, and a frequent speaker at global events including TED. Before joining the firm, she was a partner at Dalberg Global Advisors.
Doing so means weighing data, risk, and currencies—and, says BCG’s Veronica Chau, summoning “a steely sense of resolve.”
USAID’s Gillian Caldwell and BCG’s Veronica Chau discuss the Climate Gender Equity Fund—a public-private venture that empowers women and their communities.
New global sustainability standards prompt a shift from voluntary to mandatory reporting. BCG’s Veronica Chau and IFRS’ Jingdong Hua discuss company compliance and investor communication.
Ensuring a just transformation to sustainable energy and food systems is essential. Sir Alok Sharma, Rockefeller Foundation’s Elizabeth Yee, and BCG’s Veronica Chau and Naomi Desai discuss how climate financing can protect the most vulnerable communities across the world.
What if we could solve the climate and housing crises at the same time? BCG partner and director Veronica Chau suggests a playbook of moves to start mobilizing big money and transform climate financing challenges into opportunities.
BCG's Veronica Chau joins Maria Kozloski of the Rockefeller Foundation to discuss climate finance and the work that remains to ensure that governments, investors, and companies are making the greatest possible impact.