Ms. Bernstein is an institutional investment consultant and has been focused on ESG and sustainability issues for over two decades. Ms. Bernstein joined the firm in 2019 as part of the merger between Meketa and Pension Consulting Alliance (PCA). She leads ESG projects across varying clients and serves as an ongoing member of Meketa’s consulting teams for select clients. Ms. Bernstein chairs Meketa’s ESG Investing Committee and is a member of the firm’s Corporate Responsibility Committee and Net Zero Operations Task Force.

Prior to joining PCA in 2002, Ms. Bernstein was an equity analyst with several Wall Street firms, including Kaufman Bros., First Union Capital Markets Corp., and US Bancorp Piper Jaffray. In the July 2000 issue of “Wall Street Journal 1999 Best on the Street,” Ms. Bernstein was named No. 1 for Estimate Accuracy and No. 3 for Stock Picking within the Enterprise Software sector.

Prior to her Wall Street experience, Ms. Bernstein was an Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Secretariat where she analyzed investment, productivity, growth, inflation, technological change, and employment in developed market economies for internal UN discussion and publication. In addition, Ms. Bernstein was a Vice President with Mantis Holdings, a Project Director with the Ontario Investment Fund Initiative, and a Senior Economist with the Cuomo Commission on Competitiveness.

Ms. Bernstein serves as Co-Chair of the Investment Consultants Sustainability Working Group – US (ICSWG-US), is a member of the Private Equity Women’s Investor Network (PEWIN) and serves on the PEWIN Foundation Board of Directors. Ms. Bernstein holds the SASB FSA (Fundamentals of Sustainable Accounting) Credential.

Ms. Bernstein earned a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from the University of California and a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from the New School for Social Research in New York City.