September 12, 2025

LONDON and PHILADELPHIA, September 12, 2025 – PRI Academy and Wharton Executive Education are announcing the launch of a new executive education program, the Wharton/PRI Executive Certificate: Impact, Value and the Materiality of Sustainability, designed to equip investment professionals with the tools and insights needed to navigate today’s complex financial landscape. The course is being announced in the run-up to New York Climate Week with a public webinar on September 12, 2025, and will officially begin in February 2026.

This partnership reflects a shared commitment to advancing responsible investment as a core business and financial imperative. The program is grounded in fiduciary duty and evidence-based practice, helping leaders identify and manage financially material risks and opportunities in a changing world.

“As global markets face increasing complexity, from regulatory shifts and technological disruption to climate-related risks and geopolitical tensions, investors need robust frameworks and educational tools to make informed investment decisions,” said Anthony Roberts, director of the PRI Academy. “This course underpins how fiduciary responsibility and responsible investing go hand in hand. As a central platform for executive learning, the PRI Academy is proud to partner with Wharton Executive Education to bring this offering to a global audience.”

The PRI partnered with Wharton Executive Education and with Wharton’s Impact, Value, and Sustainable Business Initiative, which champions rigorous, practical education that connects measurable impact to financial value. Wharton Executive Education empowers leaders to turn insight into action through best-in-class learning that blends academic rigor with real-world relevance.

“Responsible investment is a professional discipline that empowers investors with the insights and frameworks needed to lead in a complex financial landscape” said Professor Witold Henisz, vice dean and faculty director of the Initiative. “Our goal is to prepare leaders to integrate sustainability and governance into strategy, valuation, and decision making. This partnership with PRI reflects our shared belief that long-term value creation depends on understanding and managing systemic risks.”

The course is open to participants globally and will feature expert faculty, interactive modules, and practical insights from leading practitioners. The September 12 launch event will include remarks from Wharton faculty and PRI leadership, including a panel discussion on responsible investment leadership.

About Wharton Executive Education

Wharton Executive Education has served as the global leader in executive development for 35 years. Steeped in the heritage and analytical insights of the Wharton School, with an eye toward shaping the future of business, Wharton Executive Education’s individual, online, and custom programs prepare more than 100,000 professionals a year to transform their careers and organizations. For more information on Wharton Executive Education’s practical business solutions, visit executiveeducation.wharton.upenn.edu.

About Principles for Responsible Investment

The Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) is the world’s leading proponent of responsible investment. Supported by the United Nations, it works to understand the investment implications of sustainability and governance factors and to support its international network of investor signatories in incorporating these factors into their investment and ownership decisions. The PRI acts in the long-term interests of its signatories, of the financial markets and economies in which they operate and ultimately of the environment and society as a whole. Launched in New York in 2006, the PRI has grown to more than 5,300 signatories, managing over US$128 trillion. For more information visit www.unpri.org.

About the Wharton School

Founded in 1881 as the world’s first collegiate business school, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is shaping the future of business by incubating ideas, driving insights, and creating leaders who change the world. With a faculty of more than 235 renowned professors, Wharton has 5,000 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students. Each year 100,000 professionals from around the world advance their careers through Wharton Executive Education’s individual, company-customized, and online programs, and thousands of pre-collegiate students explore business concepts through Wharton’s www.wharton.upenn.edu.

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