Speaking

Keynote Topics

Besides academic seminars and conference talks, Zacharias is frequently invited to deliver keynote speeches at corporate or academic events, especially in relation to sustainable finance topics such as:

The Measurement and Pricing of Biodiversity Risks
The Role of Institutional Investors in the Fight against Climate Change
The Risks and Opportunities of ESG Ratings
Is there an ESG Bubble?
ESG Ratings: What We Do and Do Not Know
Is there Short-termism in Financial Markets?
Corporate Purpose

Below are examples of speaking engagements

Speaking Engagements

Keynote Speaker, Journal of Financial Services Research Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2024
Keynote Speaker, Transition Investment Summit, Lombard Odier, May 2024
Keynote Speaker, MEF Workshop, University of Navarra, Madrid, Spain, May 2024 (Online)
Keynote Speaker, CPA Ontario / University of Waterloo Sustainability Conference, February 2024 (Online)
Keynote Speaker, The University of Birmingham Sustainable Financial Innovation Centre Annual Conference, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 2023
Keynote Speaker, Annual Conference of the International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS), Madrid, Spain, October 2023
Keynote Speaker, AXA XL exklusiv, Cologne, Germany, September 2023
Keynote Speaker, Sixth International Conference on Corporate Finance, Tokyo, Japan, August 2023
Keynote Speaker, NTHU Symposium on Sustainable Finance and Economics, Hsinchu City, Taiwan, June 2023 (Online)
Keynote Speaker, Conference on “Short-Termism in European Corporate Governance”, Antwerp May 2023
Keynote Speaker, Conference on “The Role of Institutional Investors in International Corporate Governance”, Hamburg, June 2022
Keynote Speaker, Mitgliederversammlung Bankenfachverband, June 2021, Cologne, Germany (Online)
Keynote Speaker, European Retail Investment Conference May 2021, Stuttgart, Germany (Online)
Keynote Speaker, Sustainable Finance Conference, University of Luxembourg, March 2021, Luxembourg (Online)
Keynote Briefing, ECGI Conference “Directors’ Duties and Sustainable Corporate Governance”, November 2020 (Online)
Keynote Speaker, European Commission Summer School on Sustainable Finance, July 2019, Ispra, Italy
Keynote Speaker, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Conference, September 2014, Montreal, Candada
Invited Speaker, G7/G20 Presidencies’ Academic Conference on “The Macro-Financial Impacts of Climate Change and the Net-Zero Transition”, October 2021, Milan, Italy
Invited Speaker, The Economist's Sustainability Week: Countdown to COP26, October 2021 (Online)