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Center for Sustainable Business

About the Director

professor Steven Mezzio, director of the Center for Sustainable Business

About Steven Mezzio

Steven Mezzio, PhD, CPA, CISA, CISSP, FSA is a former audit and consulting partner with the Big 4 firm PwC, and a former governance services leader, creator and co-leader of the Key Account Management Program, and a firm leadership team member for RGP (NASDAQ-RECN), a global, public company professional services firm, formerly part of Deloitte.

Steve joined the Lubin School of Business faculty in 2014. In 2017, he earned an NYU - Steinhardt School of Education PhD in Higher Education, concentrating in Business Education and Human Capital Development. In 2021, he was promoted to full professor and associate dean, and he co-founded the Center for Sustainable Business.

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For the past ten years Steve has been actively involved in the evolving business practice of sustainability. His diverse environmental, social, and governance (ESG)-related activities include the following:

2021

  • Lubin School of Business | The Business Council of NY State | Hudson RE Institute Renewable Energy Conference
  • Panel Moderator, Future of Energy Jobs

2021

  • B-Corp Sistema, Ecuador | U.S. Chamber of Commerce
  • AmCham Triple Impacto Conference Ecuador Conference
  • Keynote Speaker - ESG and SMEs

2021

  • SBA - Small Business Administration
  • Ethics Symposium
  • The "G" in ESG Panel Member

2021

  • AAA Annual Conference American Accounting Association
  • Education Webinar
  • Webinar Moderator, ESG-Small Business

2021

  • Grenoble Business School - France
  • Education Webinar
  • Webinar Moderator - ESG-Impact Investing

2019 - Present

  • WCU Western Colorado University
  • MBA Program
  • Faculty, Sustainability Accounting Course

2019 - Present

  • United Nations (UN): Principles of Responsible Management Education
  • UN Working Group
  • Sustainability Mindset in Higher Education

2019 - Present

  • NY State Society CPAs
  • ESG Committee
  • Committee Member and Speaker

2019

  • Kaplan Education - Financial News Network (FNN)
  • CPE
  • Speaker Sustainability Reporting

2018

  • Columbia University Sustainability Symposium
  • Panel Member
  • Sustainability Reporting and 3rd Party Attestation

2014 - 2017

  • SASB Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Member
  • FSA Inaugural Exam Task Force
  • Member of National Cohort that helped create the first SASB Certification Exam

2012 - 2016

  • SASB Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
  • SASB Standards Task Force
  • Member of National Cohort that helped create SASB Media industry standards