Objective: Hasten Change by Narrowing the Gap Between Academics and Practitionership to put Next-Gen in the Position to Influence Global Impacts
Peter Lupoff is a Special Lecturer at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. His teaching, lectures and workshops are on the topics of impact investing, and 'wicked problems' and systems solutions to address them effectively.
Professor Lupoff remains a Gabelli Fellow at Fordham University Gabelli School of Business, where he helped launch and direct strategy for the Responsible Business Center, a think-tank housed at Fordham (2022-25). Additionally, Peter was Fordham Gabelli's Executive in Residence (2018-19). Professor Lupoff was Advisor to student-managed funds at Yale School of Management and Yale University, where he was also a Special Lecturer related to Impact Investing and Investment Research (2016-2019).
Professor Lupoff has been an advocate of teaching from an academic and practitioner point of view, seeking to narrow the gap between academics and practitionership, enhancing the prospect that his students, more formidable and connected upon graduation, can be effective and accretive to employers promptly, thus enhancing a student's chances of hire and impact in fomenting a just and sustainable world through their work activities. Teams of students of Peter's have been finalists in the Wharton Total Impact Portfolio Challenge for six of the last 7 years: 2019, 2020 (winner), 2021, 2022, 2024 (Fordham) and 2025 (UCBerkeley Haas).
Peter is a frequent speaker and writer on Impact Investing and Social and Environmental issues. Further, he routinely does private, in-house seminars and workshops related to impact investing, wicke problems and systems approach to solutions and Next Generation matters.
Peter Lupoff is a Member of the Impact Investing & Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium and is a Sorenson Impact Institute Global Impact Leader.