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Octavia James
With over 8 years of experience as an Executive Assistant with a track record of strong performan
ce in high-volume, high-pressure environments, Octavia skillfully manages administrative duties and client relations for her colleagues at Milken Institute.
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report
Growing the U.S. Green Bond Market: Volume 2: Actionable Strategies and Solutions
The United States deteriorating infrastructure is woefully underprepared to address the challenge o
f adapting to climate change.
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Industrial Diversification in Bangladesh: Opportunities and Challenges
By 2014, Bangladesh had leveraged its abundant and low-cost labor to spur economic growth and attra
ct both domestic and foreign investment.
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Turning Plants Into Products: Delivering on the Potential of Industrial Biotechnology
As interest in sustainability grows in the United States and around the world, there is a push by p
olicymakers and the industrial biotechnology industry to find replacements for petroleum.
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Growing the US Green Bond Market: Lab 2
As climate-related events, including wildfires, become more prevalent throughout California, invest
ors and issuers alike are looking for new tools to protect the state from increasingly devastating environmental disasters.
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Scaling Enterprise Finance: The Future of Biofuels
America is finally coming to grips with the need to minimize its dependence on imported oil.
video
May 3 at 1:00 pm PDT | ESG for the Public Finance Sector? From Theory to Practice
Like corporate and institutional investors, the $4 trillion dollar municipal bond market is increa
singly grappling with how to account more accurately for ESG goals.
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Stories from the Field: Adriano Abbud
Please tell us what brought you to the Adolfo Lutz Institute’s Rapid Response Center.
When the CO
VID-19 pandemic erupted, our general director invited me to take on the Rapid Response Center, with the task of bringing produc
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Financial innovations can help preserve cultural heritage and slow illicit antiquities trade, according to Milken Institute
LOS ANGELES — Despite increased awareness and global attempts at enforcement, the illicit antiquitie
s trade has grown into a $4-billion market that has left behind a wide swath of economic, environmental and cultural degradation.
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Elijah Hutchinson - Stories from the Field
Jason Davis: You hold an important and unique role at the New York City Economic Development Corpor
ation (NYCEDC). What attracted you to this work, and what are some of your core responsibilities?
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Milken Institute report says biofuel industry needs new financing mechanisms to jumpstart R&D, production and distribution
(LOS ANGELES) President Obama has called for a new clean energy policy to move us toward energy inde
pendence, but biofuels will remain a small part of America′s future portfolio unless we can find a way to get investors off the sidelines.
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Financial innovations can open the market to wider disaster coverage, Milken Institute report says
LOS ANGELES — Catastrophic losses from the Northridge earthquake, Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina, and
widespread flooding in the early 1990s prompted many insurers to look for new market-based solutions to provide coverage in hazardous markets.
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