Dr. Rachel Greenberg

Biography

Rachel Mattes Greenberg is a business leader and sustainability expert with experience providing thought leadership and driving change in the financial industry. She has created and executed sustainability strategies at JPMorgan Chase and Citizens Financial Group, securing strong stakeholder support and impact. Currently, Greenberg is the head of sustainability at Citizens Financial Group (CFG), where she leads and oversees the bank's ESG efforts, designing and implementing Citizens' sustainability impact strategy while engaging in the bank's climate work. As a member of the Citizens’ ESG Executive Steering Council and the Executive Leadership Group, she ensures alignment on ESG topics at an enterprise-wide level. Greenberg spearheaded the development of Citizens’ inaugural Sustainability Announcement, which includes a series of initiatives designed to elevate and enhance the bank's commitment to sustainability impact, with a target of $50 billion in sustainable finance and a goal to achieve operational carbon neutrality by 2035. Her insights have been featured in media outlets such as American Banker, Fast Company, and ESG Dive. Speaking engagements include the Reuters Sustainable Business USA and Columbia University’s Annual Social Enterprise Conference. Before joining Citizens, Greenberg served as vice president of sustainability at J.P. Morgan Chase, where she led the development of JPM's $2.5 trillion sustainable financing target. In addition to her role at CFG, she was appointed as a visiting lecturer at Cornell Tech, developing a course for the MBA program that explores ESG and sustainability.

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