Welcome to the third installment in our ten-part ESG interview series. In this episode, we speak with Cyrus Lotfipour, who is an executive director and Head of Models and R&D for MSCI ESG Research.

MSCI ESG Ratings aim to measure a company's resilience to long-term, financially relevant ESG risks.

They leverage artificial intelligence and alternative data to assess thousands of data points across 37 ESG Key Issues, focusing on the intersection between a company's core business and the industry issues that can create significant risks and opportunities for the company.

Each company receives a rating that gives investors a means of evaluating that company relative to its industry peer group and to itself over time.