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April 2021: In April 2021, the Social & Sustainable Finance Chair organizes its 1st webinar on the theme “ESG data in sustainable finance”, presented by Jean-Baptiste MONTIEL, MBS graduate in 2013, Data Steward at Groupe Caisse des Dépôts. To register for this Webinar, click on this link: https://www.linkedin.com/events/1erwebinar-chairefinancesociale6777507913465380865/

March 2021: In March 2021, the Social & Sustainable Finance Chair created the MBS Community in Social & Sustainable Finance, the objective of this community is to bring together students and graduates of Montpellier Business School in Social & Sustainable Finance. To join the community, click on this link: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9033599/

March 2021: Dr. Thi Hong Van HOANG, coholder of the Chair, is the guest editor of a special issue in Journal of Risk and Financial Management on the theme “Advances in Sustainable Finance”. The deadline for submitting articles is December 31, 2021. For more information, click on this link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jrfm/special_issues/Advances_Sustainable_Finance

March 2021: Chair member Dr. Syed Jawad Hussain SHAHZAD is the guest editor of a special issue in Frontiers in Environmental Science on the topic “Green Finance, Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy, and Covid-19”. The deadline for submitting articles is July 1, 2021. For more information, click on this link: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/15687/green-finance-renewable-and-non-renewable-energy-and-covid-19

Since February 2021, the Social & Sustainable Finance chair has been a member of the European Microfinance Network (EMN). The EMN is a member-based not-for-profit organization based in Brussels, which promotes microfinance as a tool to fight social and financial exclusion in Europe through self-employment and the creation of microenterprises. It is the network’s mission to facilitate capacity building and to advocate on behalf of the sector.

Since January 2021, the Social & Sustainable Finance Chair has been a member of the French Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (French SIF) in the Consulting and Research college. Created in 2001, the French SIF is an association whose purpose is to promote and develop responsible investment and its best practices. It brings together investors, fund managers, specialists in social and environmental analysis, consultants as well as unions, NGOs, academics… The Chair’s membership in this association confirms our desire to promote social finance and sustainable finance through partnerships with different stakeholders in the sustainable finance ecosystem.

Thi Hong Van HOANG, co-chairholder, commits to responsible finance by becoming an ambassador member of the Acteurs de la Finance Responsable association. For more information, please see this link: http://afresponsable.com/work/thi-hong-van-hoang/

The Social & Sustainable Finance Chair recruited in October 2020 Dr. Samuel Anokye Nyarko as a post-doctoral student for the research axis on microfinance and social banking. Samuel Anokye Nyarko holds a Ph.D. in International Business from the School of Business and Law of the University of Agder, and a Ph.D. in economics and management from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He has taught several Master and Bachelor courses at the University of Agder, Norway, and at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. Previously, he also worked as Deputy Coordinator of Educational Pathways International (EPI), Ghana.

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Presentations in upcoming conferences

Hoang T., Segbotangni E.A. & Lahiani A. 2021. ESG performance and Covid-19 pandemic: An empirical analysis of European firms. 2^nd Geneva-Zurich Seminar on Sustainable Finance and Digitalization, March 25, University of Zurich and University of Geneva, Switzerland, Link.