This episode follows the journey of Audrey Choi, whose Mother escaped from North Korea, to her obtaining a degree at Harvard, before becoming the Wall Street Journal’s Foreign Correspondent and Bureau Chief, then domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore, and Chief of Staff of the Council of Economic Advisers.
This episode follows the journey of Audrey Choi, whose Mother escaped from North Korea, to her obtaining a degree at Harvard, before becoming the Wall Street Journal’s Foreign Correspondent and Bureau Chief, then domestic Policy Advisor to Vice President Al Gore, and Chief of Staff of the Council of Economic Advisers.
The discussion then encompasses her job as Chief Sustainability Officer at Morgan Stanley and analyses the benefits to both borrowers via reduced borrowing costs, and investors via improving the risk/reward trade-offs in engaging in sustainable investing. Finally there is a discussion on the integrity of the brand and how this interlinks with sustainability.
When your mother escapes from N Korea, risking incarceration or possible execution if caught, to pursue a better life and harbouring a remote dream that she might eventually make it to the USA, which becomes reality, it may not be surprising that her daughter, is also motivated to achieve great things.
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