Professor Emeritus Ali Fatemi has recently returned from Global Finance Journal’s conference on “CSR, the Economy and Financial Markets” at WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Dr. Fatemi’s research deals with issues related to sustainable finance and has been published in many leading academic journals, including Journal of Business Research and the Journal of Economic Psychology. He’s listed in the Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers and in the International Directory of Business Management Scholars and Research.

 Moderator (and NABE CHICAGO Board Director, Global Financial Architecture) Karim Pakravan will guide the conversation to include the following topics:

• What changes have occurred to Sustainability Strategies, given the new constraints (geopolitical risk, supply chain fragility, resilience levels, and energy security trade-offs)?

• What are current economic CSR activities, both at the macro and micro level?

• What are the new Pricing Sustainability efforts, including risk & equity returns?

• How are the capital markets now responding to Sustainable Finance initiatives?