Prof. Dr. Kerstin Lopatta
1st - 3rd September 2021 Beijing, China4th GRASFI Annual Conference - September 2021 - Call for PapersCo-Hosted by the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) and Tsinghua University
5. Februar 2021
Dear Sir or Madam,
We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for the largest ever convening of academic researchers working on sustainable finance and investment.
The Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (‘GRASFI’) was founded in 2017 to promote multi-disciplinary academic research on sustainable finance and investment. The Alliance currently consists of 27 global research universities.
GRASFI organises a major annual academic conference on sustainable finance and investment. The 1st Annual Conference was held at the University of Maastricht in 2018, the 2nd at the University of Oxford in 2019, and the 3rd at Columbia University in 2020.
The 4th Annual Conference in 2021 is currently being planned by two Beijing universities, Tsinghua and the Central University of Finance and Economics. This will be the first GRASFI conference in an emerging economy and the first in Asia, one of the most dynamic regions for sustainable finance and investment.
The Conference Committee is seeking 40 high quality papers for the conference with each paper having a 30-minute slot. Within each session, papers are likely to come from different disciplines to foster inter-disciplinary collaboration and learning.
Draft session themes are:
- Adaptation and resilience
- Biodiversity and nature
- Central banks, regulation and supervision
- Data and metrics
- Emerging markets
- Environmental and climate risk analysis
- Financial disclosure and reporting
- Green and resilient recovery
- Sustainable sectors (agriculture, healthcare, infrastructure investment, etc.)
- FinTech
- Taxonomies
- Transition finance
- International cooperation
- Corporate sustainable performance
The Call for Papers and submission details can be found here. Please do share this will colleagues and students.
The Conference is preceded by a PhD workshop, where pre-selected PhD students will be invited to present their papers or projects. Faculty and senior researchers from Alliance Universities will provide feedback, as well advice on research, publications, and careers.
Further conference details will be available in early 2021.
We look forward to seeing you next year.
Yours sincerely,
Rob Bauer
Professor of Finance, Maastricht University
Co-Chair, Global Research Alliance for
Sustainable Finance and Investment
Ben Caldecott
Lombard Odier Associate Professor of
Sustainable Finance, University of Oxford
Co-Chair, Global Research Alliance for
Sustainable Finance and Investment