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Workshop March 2026

This year's program features Bin Xu (ICMA Centre), Viet Anh Dang (Alliance Manchester Business School), and Florian Peters (University of Amsterdam), whom we are delighted to welcome as external speakers. The programme will also include research presentations from colleagues at Strathclyde.

The workshop will also include an industry and policy insight session featuring a fireside-style discussion with Luke Baldwin (Nature Broking) and Ben Taylor (EY) on sustainability and climate-related issues.

Morning Session

Time Speaker Title
9.00-10.00 Bin Xu, ICMA Does ESG-Linked Pay Green Bank Lending? Evidence from European Banking
10.00-10.30 Muhan Hu, Strathclyde Patent Information Access and Employment: Evidence from Patent Library Program
11.00-12.00 Moderator: Livia Pancotto, Strathclyde Industry and Policy Insight
Industry Panel:
• Luke Baldwin – Chief Executive Officer at Nature Broking
• Ben Taylor – Partner, Climate Change and Sustainability Services UKI at EY

 

Afternoon Session

Time Speaker Title
13.30-14.30 Viet Dang, U Manchester Rising Biodiversity Risk and Firm Exposure along the Supply Chain
14.30-15.00 Linxiang Ma, Strathclyde Heterogeneous Institutional Investor Response to Firm Environmental Regulatory Risk
15.30-16.30 Florian Peters, U Amsterdam Optimal Peers
16.30-17.00 Rajat Jain, Strathclyde Does ESG-Linked Pay Green Bank Lending? Evidence from European Banking

The 2025 Responsible Finance Workshop, on Thursday 22nd May was jointly organised by the Responsible Business Institute (ReBI) and the Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FRIL) at Strathclyde Business School. This year, the workshop theme is "Responsible Business and AI". Together, we will explore how emerging technologies intersect with ethical and sustainable finance, and what that means for the future of responsible business.

Morning Session

Speaker

Title

Huyen Nguyen, (Halle Institute for Economic Research; University of Jena)

Environmental Incidents and sustainability Pricing Provisions

Bonnie Buchanan (University of Surrey)

Firm Complexity and Sentiment Interplay: Evidence from Earnings Conference Calls 

Kostas Stathopoulos (University of Manchester)

Does Zombification Influence Corporate Carbon Performance?

Nataliya Tkachenko (Lloyds Banking Group)

Novel approaches for carbon accounting in AI applications: Asset-level metrics 

Afternoon Session

Speaker

Title

Strathclyde Faculty rapid fire presentations

Linxiang Ma (ReBI)

The (Unintended) Consequences of Strategic Disclosure on Green Transition: Evidence from Supply Chain 

Kushagra Jain (FRIL)

Gendered bias in algorithmic lending: A comparative ensemble panel case with nuanced model-agnostic artificial intelligence interpretability

Dimitris Andriosopoulos (ReBI)

Human Capital Quality and Radical Innovation

Hans Degryse (KU Leuven)

The Disciplining Effect of Bank Supervision: Evidence from SupTech

Kieran Garvey (University of Cambridge)

 Evolving Adoption of AI in Financial Services 

Expert Panel: Sustainability & Innovation in Finance

Nataliya Tkachenko (Lloyds Banking Group)

Claire Reid (Barclays) 

The Disciplining Effect of Bank Supervision: Evidence from SupTech 

 

 
External Activities

 

 

Speaker Title

Philipp Krüger  (University of Geneva)

 Green Revenues

Claudia Girardone (University of Essex)

 Closing Doors, Opening Insights: Bank Branch Closures, Income Inequality, and Spatial Spillover Dynamics

François Derrien (HEC Paris)

 ESG news, future cash flows, and firm value

 

Speaker Title

SBS Presentations
  1. Daniel Dao - A study on ESG Greenwashing and Ventures raising funds in Europe Equity Crowdfunding
  2. Ellie Luu - ESG Skill of Mutual Fund Managers
  3. Sheng Li - The (Unintended) Environmental Impacts of the 2003 Tax Cut

Daniel Metzger (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

 Sustainability Wage Gap

Chendi Zhang (University of Exeter)

 Temperature Sensitivity, Mispricing, and Predictable Returns

A number of ESG related seminars were organised during the 23/24 academic year.

 

Paper Title

Speaker
Leveling Up Your Green Mojo: The Benefits of Beneficent Investment Prof. Xiaoyun Yu (Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance)
Corporate culture and CSR nexus: the role of blockholders Biwesh Neupane (SBS)
How learning about behavioural biases can improve financial literacy? Experimental evidence on the effects of learning about the myopic bias. Francisco do Nascimento Pitthan (KU Leuven)

 

Paper Title

Speaker
The toxic triangle of state, stake, and institution: Sovereign wealth fund ownership and firm ESG reputation risk Prof. Hisham Farag (Professor of Finance and Director of Research at Birmingham Business School ; Founding Director of the Sustainable Financial innovation Research Centre (SFIC))

For more clarity in sustainable finance. The value of use-of-proceeds bonds in the experience of the European Investment Bank

 Aldo Romani (Head of Sustainable Finance, Finance Directorate at the European Investment Bank (EIB))

Catering through transparency: Voluntary ESG disclosure by asset managers and fund flows

 Marco Ceccarelli (Assistant Professor in Finance at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam)

Sustainable Treasury teams

 

 Arthur Krebbers (Managing Director, Head of Corporate Climate and ESG Capital Markets at NatWest; Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University) 

 

 

 

A number of ESG related seminars were organised during the 22/23 academic year. 

 

Paper title

Speaker
Climate Risk and Financial Stability: Evidence from Syndicated Lending Xing Huan (EDHEC)
The Economic Consequences of Firms' Commitment to ESG Policies Prof Dan Amiram (Tel Aviv University)
The Joint effect of Corruption and ownership Structure on Cash Prof Dimitiris Andriosopoulos (University of Strathclyde)
Investors in Green bonds Dr Moqi Groen-Xu (Queen Mary University of London)
Prepayment Penalties, Adverse Selection and Mortgage Default  Prof Danny McGowan (University of Birmingham)
Climate Regulatory Uncertainty and Corporate Green Innovation   Olakunle Olaboopo (University of Strathclyde)
The Investment Skill of ESG Aware Mutual Funds Ellie Luu (University of Strathclyde)
Stigma and Accountability in English Social Housing  Dr Mercy Denedo & Dr Amanz Ejiogu (University of Durham)

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