Mirtha Kastrapeli
Mirtha Kastrapeli
Managing Director
Global Head of Natural Capital and ESG Thought Leadership
ISS STOXX
Mirtha is Managing Director and Global Head of Natural Capital and ESG Thought Leadership at ISS Stoxx and is an accomplished sustainable investment leader with a track record in developing cutting-edge research in the ESG investment space. She is also a Senior Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Sustainable Investment, CCSI.
Most recently, Ms. Kastrapeli was the founder and CEO of Beyond Alpha LLC, a specialized research and consulting firm dedicated to helping investors design and implement sustainable investment strategies. With Beyond Alpha, she published the study ‘We Need To Talk: Why It’s Time for Institutional Investors to Embrace SDG-Aligned Investing’, which was selected as one the top 10 ESG papers by Pension and Investment Europe Magazine in 2021.
Before that, Ms. Kastrapeli had a long and successful career at State Street Bank in Boston. Her latest role was Managing Director and Global Head of State Street’s Center for Applied Research, an independent think-tank dedicated to providing insights about the future of the investment industry. In this capacity, she co-authored multiple papers including ‘The Big Shift; Finding a New Center of Gravity for the Investment Industry’ in 2019, ‘The Investing Enlightenment: How Principle and Pragmatism Can Create Sustainable Value through ESG’ in 2017, the award-winning study ‘Discovering Phi: Motivation as the Hidden Variable of Performance’ in 2016.
Ms. Kastrapeli has over fifteen years of experience in the private and public sector, analyzing capital markets and helping shape public policy. She spent seven years as a Global Macro Strategist at State Street Global Markets in Boston. In the public sector, Ms. Kastrapeli served as an advisor to the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Economics in Nicaragua. She also worked at the Economic and Commercial Office of the US Embassy in Managua, where she received a Meritorious Honor Award from the US Department of State. Ms. Kastrapeli earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in Finance and Economics from Ave Maria College in Nicaragua and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration, MBA, from the Brandeis International Business School.
