About IRRCi and the Center

In July 2018, the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute (IRRCi) announced that it selected the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware as its successor organization.

The Weinberg Center received a grant from IRRCi in excess of $1 million as part of the successor transition. With these funds, the Weinberg Center will materially expand its environmental, social, corporate governance and capital market research, and also maintain the full IRRCi research library so that more than 75 research reports remain publicly available at no cost. The Weinberg Center also will continue to fund and manage the annual IRRCi Investor Research Award that recognizes outstanding practitioner and academic research. The selection of the Weinberg Center was the result of a planned multi-year succession process undertaken by the IRRCi Board that included consideration of more than 25 organizations.

The IRRCi and the Weinberg Center successorship to it are distinct from other organizations that share some of the same roots and similar names, such as the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC), which was founded in 1972 and was acquired by an independent firm in 2015.