Jackie VanderBrug

Trustee

Jackie is Head of Sustainability Strategy at Putnam Investments, leading ESG-focused business functions, including Stewardship, Engagement, Partnerships, and ESG Strategy and Integration. She joined Putnam from Bank of America, where she served as Head of Sustainable and Impact Investment Strategy in the Chief Investment Office.

Previously she was Managing Director at Criterion Ventures, where she worked with investors on impact strategies and supported the genesis of the field of gender lens investing. She led business development efforts for technology firm iBASIS and co-founded Work in Progress, a nonprofit focused on job placement for disadvantaged youth. She began her career as a domestic policy analyst for the U.S. Congress. The author of several ESG-focused works, including the book Gender Lens Investing: Uncovering Opportunities for Growth, she is a First Mover Fellow at the Aspen Institute, a trustee of the Trustees of Donations to the Protestant Episcopal Church and on the advisory board of Duke University's CASE i3 (Initiative on Impact Investing).