The Global Sustainable Finance Conference 2017 | Making Finance Work for Africa | 13 July 2017 | Karlsruhe, Germany

The financial services industry across the globe is undergoing strategic transformation as the focus shifts from short term profitability to long term success. The sustainability challenge i.e. embedding environmental, social, economic and financial aspects in the organization's DNA is now increasingly recognized as the most critical success factor for the financial institutions world-wide.

Moreover, the technology revolution is now disrupting the entire industry of banking and finance as the non-bank digital entrants - the financial technology companies (fintechs) - begin to capture considerable market share.

Speakers from 2016:

Matthew D. Higgins is a vice president in the Emerging Markets and International Affairs Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Dr. Altman has an international reputation as an expert on corporate bankruptcy

Prof. Finn E. Kydland; 2004 Nobel Prize in Economics; The Jeff Henley Professor of Economics; University of California, Santa Barbara

Dr. Randy I. Anderson; Chief Economist, Griffin Capital Corporation

Prof. Edward C. Prescott; 2004 Nobel Laureate in Economics; AW. P. Carey Chair in Economics & Regents’ Professor; Arizona State University

Prof. Jay R. Ritter; Joe B. Cordell Eminent Scholar Chair/ Eminent Scholar, University of Florida

Prof. William L. Megginson; Rainbolt Chair in Finance, The University of Oklahoma

Dr. Wolfgang Engshuber; Chairman, Principles for Responsible Investment, the United Nations

Dr. Roberta Romano; Sterling Professor of Law and Director

Nobel Laureate, Dr. Robert A. Mundell

Professor Leszek Balcerowicz

Dr. J.P. Schmidt

The Rt. Hon. Mike Moore

Mr. Cao Baijun was educated at Shanghai Foreign Language University, Heidelberg University, Germany and UCLA in the USA

Dr. Finn Kydland is a professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon University Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences (2004) University of California

Robert J. Shiller is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics

Campbell Harvey

John Marshall

J.D. Agarwal

Joseph Penbera

Werner De Bondt

Otmar Issing

Richard Brealey

Hans Tietmeyer

Jay Ritter

William Megginson

Bill Finkelstein

Lori Mirek

Anthony Herbst

Franklin Allen

Michael H. Moskow

Diane Swonk