NBS-PRI-ECGI Public Lecture Series - Double Materiality, Underlying Ethical Principles for Investing, and Performance

The NBS-PRI-ECGI Public Lecture Series is a new global joint initiative between Nanyang Business School (NBS), the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) to facilitate the knowledge exchanges between academics, practitioners, and policymakers in sustainable business.   

The series provides monthly in-person or online public lectures. Each lecture will feature a leading academic to present cutting-edge research of a specific topic, and an industry expert to moderate the session, sharing insights from the field and also tailoring audience questions in a way to better enable bridging the gap between research and practice.

In this lecture, Prof. Rodolphe Durand will discuss how traditional investment rules often fall short because they succumb to an 'ecological fallacy', ignoring that there exist unintended effects of profit maximisation at the firm level that undermine the conditions for profit-making at the material, natural, and geopolitical levels. His lecture considers how investors could benefit from integrating indicators that account for the ways firms assess operational risks in liaison with the macro-level equilibria that these firms contribute towards.

Date: 17 April 2025, Thursday
Time: 6:30 pm - 8.00 pm SGT | 10:30 pm - 12:00 pm GMT
Platform: In-person at Gaia Auditorium at NBS or via Zoom

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