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Exeter Sustainable Finance Centre (ESF)

2nd Exeter Sustainable Finance Conference

Call for papers

Conference date 18 - 19 September 2025
Time 9:00 to 17:00
Place Reed Hall, Woodridge Room
Submission deadline 6 June 2025

The Exeter Sustainable Finance (ESF) Centre at the University of Exeter is organising its second conference on the 18 - 19th September 2025. The objective is to present state-of-the-art empirical and theoretical research on sustainable finance and to inform investment practices. This year, the conference will be preceded by the Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI) PhD Workshop taking place on 17th of September.

We invite submissions of unpublished research papers on any topic related to sustainable and responsible finance. The organisers particularly encourage submissions of interdisciplinary research that draws together approaches and perspectives from different disciplines. The papers will be reviewed by a programme committee consisting of faculty members from the ESF Centre. The programme of our successful inaugural conference can be found here.

Keynote Speakers

The conference will feature two keynote speeches. We are honoured to have Professor Elroy Dimson (University of Cambridge) and Professor Harrison Hong (Columbia University) as keynote speakers. 

Paper submission guidelines

Please submit the paper in PDF format to sustainable-finance@exeter.ac.uk. There is no submission fee.

Timeline

The submission deadline is 6 June 2025. Authors of accepted papers will be notified around 4 July 2025.

Contact

For questions and further information, please contact conference organisers Chendi Zhang (Director) and Monika Tarsalewska (Deputy Director) of the ESF Centre at sustainable-finance@exeter.ac.uk.