Andrea Armeni
Associate Clinical Professor of Social Finance and Public Service; Director of Social Impact, Innovation, and Investment Specialization
Room 377
New York, NY 10003
Andrea Armeni is Associate Clinical Professor of Social Finance and Public Service and Director of the Social Impact, Innovation, and Investment Specialization (SI3) at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He also serves as the MPA/MBA Faculty Director, as co-director of the joint NYU Stern and NYU Wagner Social Entrepreneurship minor, and leads the NYU Impact Investment Fund (NIIF), a student-run investment fund that uniquely brings together public policy and business students across NYU schools.
A corporate lawyer by training, Armeni co-founded and served as Transform Finance’s Executive Director for a decade, exploring how capital can be made more just and equitable and how transformative social change can be achieved both in and through finance, and is now a senior advisor to the organization.
His current explorations focus on distributed governance and ownership mechanisms at the enterprise level as a fairer alternative to shareholder primacy and on the connection between impact investing strategies and broader transformation of the role of capital in society.
He is the co-author, most recently, of “Alternative Ownership Enterprises,” “Grassroots Community Engaged Investment: Redistributing power over investment processes as the key to fostering equitable outcomes” and “Addressing Capital's Effects on Racial Justice: How investments drive injustice and what investors can do about it.”
Armeni’s NYU Wagner course on finance and social justice received the 2021 Award of Excellence from the Financial Times and the Impact Finance Faculty Consortium.
He holds a B.A. in analytic philosophy, summa cum laude, from Columbia University and a Juris Doctor from the Yale Law School.