Mike Lubrano

Managing Director of Valoris Stewardship Catalysts, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

Mike Lubrano is Managing Director of Valoris: Stewardship Catalysts, a firm that helps investors and portfolio companies improve their corporate governance, investor stewardship and sustainability performance. He is Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business and teaches Sustainable Finance for the IFC-Milken Institute Capital Markets Scholars program.

Mike also leads the Governance, Stewardship and Sustainability Programme of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) and served as ICGN’s Education Programme Advisor until December 2020. With George Dallas, Mike is the author of Governance, Stewardship and Sustainability, 2nd edition published in 2023.

From 2007 to 2019, Mike was Co-Founder and Managing Director, Corporate Governance and Sustainability, at Cartica Management, LLC, an Emerging Markets fund manager with a concentrated, long-only portfolio of equity securities of publicly traded companies. In this role he oversaw Cartica’s ESG analysis and led its engagements with management teams and boards of directors of target and portfolio companies in Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

At International Finance Corporation (IFC) from 1997 to 2007, Mike pioneered IFC’s corporate governance practice, establishing corporate governance as a central element of IFC’s sustainable development strategy. Mike is an attorney by profession and holds degrees from Harvard College, Princeton University and New York University School of Law.