Christina Alfonso-Ercan

Christina is a global leader in ESG with over 20 years of finance and investment experience across North America, Europe, and Latin America. For the last 12 years, she has advised top global fund managers, family offices and Fortune 100 companies on sustainable strategies and ESG integration. Christina is a two-time ESG entrepreneur, most recently serving as Cofounder and CFO of Novata, a PE-backed technology platform that provides ESG measurement, data collection, and reporting for the private markets. In this role, she was responsible for leading the finance, accounting, audit, tax, legal, IT, and HR functions. Prior to Novata, from 2012 to 2020, Christina served as Cofounder and CEO of Madeira Global, one of the pioneer ESG advisory and reporting firms serving the private equity and private credit markets.

In 2021, Christina advised on the intersection of climate risk and the private markets for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Annual Planning Committee. In 2020, summarizing her contributions to the field, Christina published via Palgrave MacMillan, “Private Equity and ESG Investing,” in “Values at Work: Sustainable Investing & ESG Reporting.” She was recognized as a "Game Changer" by the U.S. Green Chamber of Commerce in 2016 and, in 2015, was awarded "Women of Influence” by the New York Business Journal and City & State Reports' "Pioneer Award for Distinguished Achievement in Impact Investing.”

Christina holds an M.B.A. from ESADE Business School in Barcelona and a B.S. in Finance and Economics from Fordham University. She has served on the advisory boards of PathNorth, Cimbria Capital, Milken Institute, Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society, and the Centre for Social Innovation. With a particular interest in the intersection of ESG and national security, Christina is a recent graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Senior Executives in National and International Security program and regularly works to promote ESG integration in the defense industry.