PRI Research Rewards

Six research awards (three $7,000 awards for post doctorate or academic articles and three $4,000 research awards for graduate level articles) will be awarded at the annual conference among the selected papers. The awards are part of a PRI/Danish government joint venture which aims to provide implementation support for PRI signatories and other responsible investment practitioners by generating innovative and practically applicable knowledge concerning the business case for responsible investing. In particular, entrants will be awarded for research that improves the methodological basis for including environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into the investment analysis and decision making of mainstream institutional investors and businesses in general with a view to the themes outlined in the call for papers.

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Award panel

Special attention has been paid to the diversity of the award panel to ensure it includes a wide range of knowledge and expertise as well as a fair composition of academics and practitioners. The award panel is composed of the following:

• Jeroen Derwall, assistant professor of Economics at Tilburg University and assistant professor of Finance at Maastricht University, the Netherlands
• Matthew Haigh, Associate Professor. Department of Business, University of Aarhus, Denmark
• Lars Hassel, Program Director, Mistra , Sweden
• Nicolas Mottis, Professor, ESSEC, France
• Jean-Philippe Desmartin, Senior analyst, Head of SRI research, Oddo Securities, France
• Amanda McCluskey, Head of Sustainability & Responsible Investment, Colonial First State, Australia
• Steen Vallentin, Associate professor, PhD, Center for Corporate Social Responsibility (cbsCSR) at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark
• Steve Waygood, Head of Sustainability Research and Engagement, Aviva Investors, United Kingdom

The winners of the research awards will be announced on the second day (May 6) at the PRI Academic Conference in Copenhagen.

For more information on the awards, please see Rules and Regulations.