Practice and Research Seminar: Considering future generations in financial decisions
Don't miss our seminars focusing on Grand Challenges! This time we will explore how future generations are considered in financial decisions. Lunch is provided. Places are limited, so please don't wait to register.
Many business and financial decisions can have long-term impact, with consequences extending into the year 2050 or beyond. In finance, such decisions concern pension funds, wealth management and individual financial planning. In fact, taking the perspective of the next generations is particularly important to ensure sustainable outcomes, and future thinking is one of key skills for responsible manage-ment. Possible in theory, difficult in practice? In this conversation we will discuss the challenges of intergenerational decisions in sustainable finance and situations in which interventions from the lab can be applied in the field.
Cecile Biccari
Cecile Biccari is a sustainable finance professional with 20+ years' experience working alongside business leaders and investors to align investments with sustainability goals (WBCSD, HSBC, Robe-CoSAM). She currently works with the Ethos Foundation, a Swiss organization helping pension funds to invest more sustainably. Over the years, Cecile has trained thousands of finance professionals in sustainability investing by developing courses for the PRI Academy and the CFA Institute. As an independent consultant, she has also advised several banks and asset managers on how to implement their sustainability investing strategies. She is the author of "C'est ton argent - que vas-tu en faire?", a children's book on money, impact and responsibility published in French, German and English by HELVETIQ.
Ewa Lombard
Ewa Lombard is Assistant Professor in sustainable decision-making. She studies intergenerational decision-making, ethical and pro-environmental decisions, collective intelligence, and purpose. She holds a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience and is a specialist in psychology of financial decision-making. She teaches Future Thinking and Neurofinance, and in her free time writes hard science-fiction.
HEC Research Center for Grand Challenges