Ramin Baghai is a Professor at the Department of Finance of the Stockholm School of Economics. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the London Business School. Ramin’s research is in corporate finance, with a focus on labor and finance, and intermediation in fixed income markets. He has published in the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics, among other journals.
Keynote title: Are women more exposed to firm shocks?
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4533507

Ciarán Cuffe is co-chair of the European Green Party. He served as a Greens/EFA Member of the European Parliament from 2019-2024, and sat on the Transport, and Energy committees. He was the Parliament’s lead negotiator for the Recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive that legislates for the decarbonisation of the EU’s building stock. He is the former president of EUFORES, a European cross-party interparliamentary network that promotes renewable energy and energy efficiency. He holds degrees in architecture and urban planning from University College Dublin and obtained his MSc in Cities from the London School of Economics in 2019.
Keynote title: Climate and biodiversity: the challenge of implementation

Hannah Layman leads the Sustainable Investment (SI) Index Research and Design Team at FTSE Russell, London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). With four years at FTSE, she has focused on developing and refining SI indices. Before joining LSEG, Hannah spent five years at Goldman Sachs in the Global Investment Research (GIR) team, specializing in portfolio strategy, and worked as an actuary in Ernst & Young’s Banking and Capital Markets team. Hannah holds a mathematics degree from the University of Melbourne and Trinity College Dublin, along with a Master of Actuarial Science from the University of Melbourne. She frequently engages with asset managers, asset owners, corporates, industry bodies, and academics, sharing insights on portfolio construction for ESG and climate transition.
Keynote: Academic, practitioner and policy cohesion: the need for short-term solutions to biodiversity conservation in portfolio construction.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bse.3570