Investor Sustainability Engagement

The event will be hybrid with the possibility of joining online via zoom or attending in-person in Amsterdam.

About the Event

Recent years have witnessed a growing pressure on corporations to act more responsibly towards stakeholders other than shareholders. Demands for more responsible behaviour are coming from different sides, including from institutional investors who have become large shareholders in many corporations around the world. Powerful institutional shareholders are at the centre of private actor-led efforts to make businesses more sustainable.

Institutional shareholders, however, face many challenges in engaging with portfolio firms. Effective engagement requires a good understanding of target companies, their businesses and the relevant trade-offs, more clarity about the meaning of corporate sustainability, and the availability of credible information about business practices. Questions also remain about the incentives of institutional shareholders to drive changes in corporate behaviours and about the overall impact of investor sustainability engagement.

The Conference on Investor Sustainability Engagement aims to answer these questions by bringing together world-class scholars from law, corporate finance and economics, and leading practitioners from different sectors. This hybrid conference will take place at the University of Amsterdam, in person, and virtually over Zoom on June 23-24, 2022. There will be sessions with presentations of academic papers and a roundtable discussion on investor sustainability engagement by experts from the investor community, consultants, and charities.

Practical information

This conference is a hybrid event. 
Tickets for in-person attendance on campus  are limited and will be sold on a first come first served basis.
Registration:
Register via Eventbrite for live on-site attendance (Sales may close before the event date so register asap).
Register via Zoom for online attendance.