Other

Auxillary activities / other positions (past and present)

• Member of the Netspar Program Research Council, 2024 -

• Academic Review Board, PGGM Systematic Equity Strategies, 2022 - 2025

• Judge for the Moskowitz prize hosted by Kellog School of Management, previously by UC Berkeley

Conference (co-)organizer and program committee (past and present)

• Organizer 2009 Ecce Academic Conference, Maastricht

• Co-organizer 2018 Inaugural conference of the Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investments (GRASFI), Maastricht

• Program committee, 2023, 2024 European Sustainable Finance PhD Workshop 

• Program committee 2024 conference of the Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investments (GRASFI), Singapore

ECCE : www.sustainable-finance.nl

• Co-Founded in 2006

Recent media / external coverage of research

• Coverage of Busch, Derwall et al. (2021)

  • Navigating ESG Investing: Dimensional

  • A Climate for Change: Meeting Investor Demand for Climate and ESG Information at the SEC, Speech by SEC commissioner Lee 

  • Financing a better world requires impact transparency, integrity and harmonisation. Report of the Impact Taskforce

• Coverage of Bauer, Derwall Tissen (2022)

• Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog

• Pensioenpro

• Responsible Investor

Industry presentations and reports

• Coverage of Busch, Derwall et al. (2021)

  • Navigating ESG Investing: Dimensional

  • A Climate for Change: Meeting Investor Demand for Climate and ESG Information at the SEC, Speech by SEC commissioner Lee 

  • Financing a better world requires impact transparency, integrity and harmonisation. Report of the Impact Taskforce

• Coverage of Bauer, Derwall Tissen (2022)

• Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog

• Pensioenpro

• Responsible Investor

Supervision of and research projects with  Phd Candidates (past and present)

• Laury Wollny (Utrecht University, Sustainable Finance, 2022 - ), with Rients Galema & Kees Koedijk

• Lara Spaans (Utrecht University, Sustainable Finance, 2021 - ), with Kees Koedijk

• Kayshani Gibbon (Utrecht University, Sustainable Finance, 2022 - ), with Dirk Gerritsen & Kees Koedijk

• Colin Tissen (Maastricht University, Active ownership on ESG issues, 2018-2022) with Rob Bauer & Paulo Rodrigues

• Edem Emerald Sabah (Open University, 2015-2020), with Willem Buijink

• Nora Pankratz (Maastricht University, 2015-2019), with Rob Bauer

• Arian Borgers (Tilburg University, 2009-2013), with Kees Koedijk & Jenke ter Horst

• Daniel Hann (Maastricht University, 2007-2011), with Rob Bauer

Interesting reads

Sustainable finance/investing/ESG integration

• Thierry Roncalli's Handbook of Sustainable Finance (thierry-roncalli.com) 

• Guillaume Coqueret's Perspectives in ESG equity investing by Guillaume Coqueret :: SSRN 

Impact assessment (from scientifically sound to popular in practice))

• Impact Evaluation in Practice - Second Edition (worldbank.org) 

Interesting pages for those interested in ESG/climate/sustainable finance

• Transition pathway initiative

• Impact weighted-accounts 

• Science-based Targets Initiative

• MSCI ESG ratings, and related data open access (yes, there arre different ESG ratings with different metrics, but MSCI by far has the largest market share, i.e. more investor following)

• Climate Action 100+

• NGFS climate scenarios

• Authentic sustainability assessment

• More to come..