Megan Ahern

Megan Ahern is a Director of Responsible Investing at Nuveen, the investment management arm of TIAA. In this role, she leads the firm’s climate stewardship strategy, focusing on strategic engagements with power and energy companies in collaboration with portfolio managers and investment analysts. She represents this strategy both internally and externally, including via collaborations with organizations like JPMorgan Chase on clean energy financing and the Environmental Defense Fund on methane mitigation. During her time in the FDCE program, Megan’s research on utility policy and data center demand was highlighted in the Yale Clean Energy Forum. She is a Yalie through and through, holding a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Yale College. When she’s not working or listening to energy podcasts, you can find her reading, running, or playing the piano.