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This month's edition features a lecture by the president of ESMT, Jörg Rocholl. He has been the president of ESMT since July 2011 and the Deutsche Bank professor in sustainable finance since September 2022. He is chair of the advisory board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance and chair of the steering committee of the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM). Furthermore, he is a member of the supervisory board at RWE AG, a member of the board of the Schmalenbach Society, a member of acatech (German Academy of Science and Engineering), a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Rocholl joined ESMT in July 2007 as an associate professor and became full professor in July 2010. In September 2010, he was appointed the associate dean of faculty and, in April 2011, dean of faculty. Rocholl holds a PhD in finance and economics and an MPhil from Columbia Business School as well as a “Diplom-Ökonom mit Auszeichnung” (economics degree with distinction) from Witten/Herdecke University in Germany.

 

As a researcher, Rocholl’s interests are in sustainable finance, corporate finance, corporate governance, financial intermediation, and central banking. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. It has also been reported in leading international media such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Financial Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Handelsblatt, and Börsen-Zeitung. He appears regularly as an expert on ARD, ZDF, Bloomberg TV, and Deutsche Welle.