Angela’s doctoral research addresses current ESG reporting gaps, investigating the divide between investor/firm-level and managerial/operations-level disclosure and standards, along with the impact of evolving accounting and information technology on corporate sustainability decisions. At UCLA, Angela is co-advised by Professors Magali Delmas and Charles Corbett across IoES and Anderson School of Management.
Most recently at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Angela led research on carbon offset markets, probing challenges in designing and scaling voluntary environmental markets. Her team analyzed issues of quality, measurement, trust, disclosure, and regulation in standards, as well as the institutional infrastructure of carbon registries.
Prior to academia, Angela created and founded ProductBio, an AI-driven sustainability management platform that stewarded $2.6 billion of taxpayer dollars toward environmentally preferable product replacements and made improvements to Scope 3 reporting capabilities. As a technology CEO, she has advised UNEP, NIST, ANSI, and the State of California on standards development. Previous to entrepreneurship, Angela worked in management consulting and product management.
Angela holds a UC Berkeley B.A. in interdisciplinary studies, focusing on human cooperation in both evolutionary and modern contexts across biological anthropology, political science, and organizational behavior. Her University of Cambridge M.Phil delved into applied evolutionary studies, exploring systemic risk and financial ecology.