Tessa Hebb

 …, Ph.D. (York)

Director (Carleton Centre for Community Innovation (3ci))

Office: 2104 Dunton, 613-520-2600 x 1217

E-mail: tessa_hebb [at] carleton [dot] ca

Blog: http://socialfinance.ca/blog/author/tessa/

Research fields: social finance

Expertise:
• financial and extra-financial impacts of pension-fund investments

Selected publications:

No Small Change: Pension Funds and Corporate Engagement, ILR Press, Cornell University Press, September 2008 (168 pages).

“Economically Targeted Investing: Financial and Collateral Impacts” (with Edward T. Jackson, and Kathryn Manley), Pensions at Work: Socially Responsible Investment of Union-Based Pension Funds, ed. Jack Quarter, Isla Carmichael, and Sherida Ryan, University of Toronto Press, August 2008, Ch. 8 (pp. 207–240).

“The Economic Inefficiency of Secrecy: Pension Fund Investors’ Corporate Transparency Concerns,” Fundamentals of Corporate Governance, Volume 4: Stakeholders and Sustainability, ed. Thomas Clarke and Marie dela Rama, Sage Publishing, 2007.

“Secrets, Lies and Economic Inefficiency,” Financial Services and Public Policy: Proceedings of a Conference Sponsored by the Schulich School of Business National Research Program in Financial Services and Public Policy, ed. Christopher Waddell, John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy in co-operation with McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004, pp. 349–355.

“Canadian Labour-Sponsored Investment Funds: A Model for U.S. Economically Targeted Investments” (with David Mackenzie), Working Capital: The Power of Labor’s Pensions, ed. Archon Fung, Tessa Hebb, and Joel Rogers, ILR Press, Cornell University Press, 2001, Ch. VI (pp. 128–157).

Short biography:

Tessa Hebb (Ph.D., York) is the Director of the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation at Carleton University. Her research focuses on the financial and extra-financial impact of pension-fund investment in Canada and internationally with particular emphasis on responsible investment and corporate engagement, and is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The Carleton Centre for Community Innovation is a leading knowledge producer of social finance tools and instruments.

Dr. Hebb is also a senior research associate with the Oxford University Centre for the Environment (in the U.K.) and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (in the U.S.). In 2008, she completed a multi-year research project funded by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations on the role of U.S. public-sector pension funds and urban revitalization, based at the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School.

Dr. Hebb has published many articles on pension-fund investing policies and is the co-editor of the volume Working Capital: The Power of Labor’s Pensions. Her new book, No Small Change: Pension Fund Corporate Engagement, has been available from Cornell University Press since September 2008.