Biography
Damian Penco is a PhD Candidate at Trinity College Dublin. His doctoral programme is funded by BiOrbic in partnership with ReFarm, an Irish agri-environmental scheme using blended finance to support actions for nature on Irish farms. He holds an MSc in Advertising from TU Dublin and an MSc in Global Challenges for Sustainability from Trinity College Dublin and the CHARM-EU Alliance. He brings over 25 years’ experience in marketing communications to his doctoral work.
Damian’s research examines why Irish businesses do not finance nature restoration at meaningful scale, through the lenses of organisational behaviour, corporate ethics and financial valuation.
Research Expertise
Private sector nature financing