About us

Alexander Bassen is a full professor of capital markets and management at the University of Hamburg, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Science (Germany). He teaches courses in finance and investment, ESG and capital markets and reporting. Dr. Bassen is a member of the German Council for Sustainable Development - advisory body of the German Federal Government, co-chair of the UN PRI Academic Network Steering Committee, member of the corporate governance commission and the investor relations commission of the Society of Investment Professionals Germany (DVFA), member of the Commission on Environmental, Social & Governance Issues (CESG) of the European Association of Financial Analysts Societies (EFFAS) and member of the advisory panel for sustainability of Deutsche Asset and Wealth Management (Deutsche Bank). His work has been published in Energy Economics, Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, Journal of Business Economics, Applied Economics, International Journal Technology Management.

Timo Busch is a full professor at the School of Business, Economics and Social Science of University of Hamburg (Germany) and Senior Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth of University of Zurich (Switzerland). He gives lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and taught at the Duisenberg School of Finance (The Netherlands). Timo Busch had several research stays including John Molson School of Business (Canada), Amsterdam Business School (The Netherlands), Nanyang Business School (Singapore), and University of Berkeley (US). He was United Nations delegate at the Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development. Timo Busch is a member of the Scientific Board of the Association for Environmental Management and Sustainability in Financial Institutions (VfU). He is a member of the editorial board of the journals Organization & Environment, Journal of Business Ethics, and Business Strategy and the Environment. His work was published in international journals including Business & Society, Business Strategy and the Environment, California Management Review, Ecological Economics, Energy Economics, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Long Range Planning, Scandinavian Management Journal, and Strategic Management Journal.

Andreas Hoepner is serving as visiting professor for financial data science since January 2017. He is currently a full professor of operational risk, banking & finance at the University College Dublin and head of practical tools for the MISTRA Financial Systems resarch consortium of Stockholm School of Economics. His research focuses on sustainable investments, analysed from a financial data science perspective. Dr. Hoepner's visiting role is aimed at the education of postgraduate research students in financial data science and also seeks to deepen relationships around research grants such as EU Climate KIC, Climpax or MISTRA Financial Systems. He has been invited by Prof. Dr. Alexander Bassen and will be available in Hamburg for short periods until the end of 2018.

Kerstin Lopatta is a full professor at the School of Business, Economics and Social Science at the University of Hamburg and Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance at the University of Luxembourg. Kerstin Lopatta has work experience as a consultant in a big 4 audit company and she had several research stays including City University Hong Kong and New York University Stern School of Business. Her work was published in international journals including Journal of Corporate Finance, Business & Society, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Risk Finance and Journal of Business Economics. She serves as a reviewer for many international journals as well including Energy Economics and Accounting, Auditing and Accountability. She has several cooperations with global and small and medium-sized companies.

Fenna Blomsma is a Junior Professor at Hamburg University, holding the chair in Circular Economy and Systems Innovation, as part of the School of Business, Economics and Social Science of the University of Hamburg. Her work focuses on unpacking the complexity involved in circular oriented innovation, how to design and implement sustainable circular business models, and on the design and development of circular value chains. One such question in her research is how financial markets and investors can support companies to adopt more circular economy practices. Previously, Fenna worked in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Before, she did a doctoral research at the Centre for Environmental Policy (Imperial College London), and she also holds degrees from Cranfield University and Delft University of Technology. Through this, Fenna Blomsma is able to draw knowledge from the domains of design, engineering, sustainability, business and organization science. Fenna is furthermore on the advisory board of the International Society for Circular Economy.

Jana-Michaela Timm is assistant professor in "Sustainable Investment and Management" at the School of Business, Economics and Social Science at the University of Hamburg. Her research focus is on innovative sustainable investment and transformational entrepreneurship. She teaches in "entrepreneurial business innovation" and "transformational sustainability entrepreneurship". Jana Timm was post-doc in the international research project "Educating Future Change Agents - Higher education as a motor of the sustainability transformation" at the Arizona State University (USA) and Leuphana University of Lueneburg (Germany). Her academic work has been published among others within the Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of Cleaner Production and Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik (zfwu). Having work experience herself as personal health consultant, marketing manager, environmental and PR assistant Jana Timm can draw on extensive expertise in environmental and marketing management and entrepreneurial thinking. She has a number of cooperations with innovative entrepreneurs with whom she is pursuing transdisciplinary research and teaching in innovative forms of investment and enterprise creation.