15th , 16th & 17th September 2021
Sustainability Management and Reporting
Performance management, disclosure and communication of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals
University of Pavia, Italy
A three-days online conference with internationally renowed experts in the field
Registrations are open until the 20th August, 2021
The Summer School is free of charge.
Certificates of participation will be provided at the end of the three days.
For any additional information, please contact mariachiara.demartini@unipv.it
International Speakers
Richard Bruce
Lecturer in Supply Chain Accounting and Finance & Chief Business Advisor to the University’s Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures
University of Sheffield
Alessandro Ghio
Assistant Professor in Accounting
Laval University
Sophie Hoozée
Associate Professor of Management Accounting and Control, Dept. Accounting, Corporate Finance & Taxation
Ghent University
Kenneth Merchant
Deloitte & Touche LLP Chair in Accountancy and Professor Emeritus of Accounting
University of Southern California
Mahmoud Marzouk
Lecturer in Accounting and Finance,
School of Business
University of Leicester
Andreas Hoepner
Full Professor, School of Business
University College Dublin
Objectives
The main aim is to provide participants with a universal and comprehensive knowledge of sustainability management and reporting, encompassing various disciplines, country experiences and perspectives.
A first aim of the summer school is to provide participants with the opportunity to obtain competences in this field. Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues are becoming more and more integrated in all kinds of business. Not only sustainable actions are required and promoted at the European level by International and European policies on sustainable development and the European Commission's Green Deal, but also by more and more individuals, asking for firms’ responsible actions. For this reason, ESG issues are becoming crucial to address societal expectations and evolving market requirements. Certain companies are yet required by law to develop, alongside the financial statement, a Non-Financial Report, while other companies are developing and publishing Non-Financial Reports voluntarily. As ESG issues are becoming pivotal in corporate management and reporting, transparency is a fundamental requisite to be respected. Therefore, being able to manage and report ESG issues is as valuable as necessary in the modern business world.
A second aim of the summer school is making participants able to make comparisons and have a wider knowledge of the implications of managing and reporting ESGs. This will help to fill the gap between traditional teaching of management and accounting and the necessity of integration of sustainability, which is becoming increasingly asked by companies and organizations worldwide.
Organization of the Summer School
It will be organized with a series of lectures held by professors coming from different Universities, departments and countries. This heterogeneity allows the achievement of a wider representation and understanding of the topics, as well as comparisons and integration of different perspectives. Sustainability issues will be approached by the perspectives of both the Department of Economics and Management and the Department of Political and Social Sciences within the University of Pavia, and by international perspectives coming from the opposite poles of the world. All lecturers are supposed to organize lectures, but they will be left a degree of freedom in deciding the best and most suitable format. Moreover, the summer school wishes to include presentations of professional experiences by representatives of the business context, in order to integrate knowledge from the academic one. Professionals disclosing non-financial information will serve as practical examples of best practices to be illustrated and discussed with participants, in order to present what is already in place and hypothesize what can be done in the future. To favor discussions, between experts and/or participants roundtables and workshops will be held as well, in order to allow attendants to contribute and interact one with another. Thanks to the heterogeneity of lecturers and experts, the summer school aims at combining academic and business perspectives.
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