Steven Hyland Jr., Ph.D.

Steven is a tenured faculty member at Wingate University and has obtained the Sustainable Finance Certificate from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He has eight years of leadership experience in the non-profit sector as a successful fundraiser, mentor, and program manager. He has received numerous awards and grants for his thematic research at the intersection of political economy, governance, and history, including a Fulbright Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, the Alfred B. Thomas Book Award, and many others. His recent research has focused on capital markets, sustainable finance, and ESG integration in Latin America and the Caribbean. His writings have appeared in popular press outlets Value Walk, Yahoo Finance, the Huffington Post, and the Raleigh News and Observer, as well as academic journals and public affairs publications. He has lectured at various universities in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, including New York University, the University of Buenos Aires, and the Free University of Berlin.