Keynote Lecture

The Keynote Lecture will be held by Professor Lasse Heje Pedersen. He is a financial economist and a pioneer in sustainable finance, celebrated for his groundbreaking work at the intersection between finance and environmental economics.

A Stanford PhD, he is a professor at Copenhagen Business School, director of the Center for Big Data in Finance (BIGFI), and a principal at AQR Capital Management. He has served as Director of the American Finance Association, in the Liquidity Working Group meeting at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to address liquidity issues, on the Economic Advisory Boards of NASDAQ and FTSE, and on several editorial boards, including the Journal of Finance and Quarterly Journal of Economics.

His academic awards include the Bernácer Prize to the best EU economist under 40 years of age, the Banque de France-TSE Prize, the Stephen A. Ross Prize, JF Brattle and DFA Prizes, JFE Fama-DFA Prizes, RFS Michael Brennan Award, FAJ Graham and Dodd Top Awards, and the Outstanding Paper Award of the Swiss Finance Institute for his article “Carbon Pricing versus Green Finance”.

For further information visit : Lasse Heje Pedersen (lhpedersen.com)