Stephen Porter, CFA, PhD
Dr Stephen Porter is the Responsible Investment Lead at Scottish Widows. He is a CFA
charterholder and has over twenty years’ experience in investment management and
consulting with large, global firms, together with a decade within academia, earning an MSc
and PhD related to carbon and sustainable business. This range of experience and expertise
provides Stephen with a rare, holistic perspective of the fast-evolving ESG landscape, which
he applies to the Scottish Widows responsible investment proposition.
Stephen also currently lectures and supervises research at the University of Edinburgh, and
is a trustee of the Plan Vivo Foundation, a Scottish charity that seeks to aid communities
vulnerable to climate change through carbon projects that build resiliency and capacity, as
well as tradable credits.
