Day 1 - September 22, 2021

Welcome Remarks - click here for video

• Peter Easton, Notre Dame Alumni Professor of Accountancy and Academic Director, CARE; Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
• Jeremy Deaton, Managing Editor; Yale E360

Session A

PANEL - Key Thoughts From Climate Scientists - click here for video

Moderator:
Chris Easton, Professor and Research Scientist; Research School of Chemistry, ANU College of Science, Australian National University

Speakers:

• John Church, Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales
• Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Professor, ARC Centre for Excellence in Coral Reef Studies, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland
• Will Steffen, Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society; Australian National University

KEYNOTE - Can ESG Reporting Be Consistent With Basic Accounting Principles? - click here for video

David Pitt-Watson, Pembroke Visiting Professor in Finance, Fellow Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Session B

KEYNOTE - Setting the stage: Why, should, and how can accounting and finance faculty become involved? - click here for video

Gerben De Zwart, Head of Investment Solutions; APG, The Netherlands

PANEL - Setting the stage: Why, should, and how can accounting and finance faculty become involved? - click here for video

Moderator:
W Robert Knechel, Senior Editor, The Accounting Review; Frederick E Fisher Eminent Scholar and Director, International Accounting and Auditing Center; Warrington College of Business, University of Florida

Speakers:

• Gerben De Zwart, Head of Investment Solutions; APG, The Netherlands
• Roberto Rigobon, Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Management and Professor of Applied Economics; Sloan School of Management, MIT
• Roger Simnett, Member, International Auditing Standards Board; Scientia Professor Emeritus, Professor of Accounting; UNSW Business School; Professorial Research Fellow, Faculty of Business and Law; BL Deakin Business School

Academic Spotlight Breakout 

• Stephen Taylor, Member, Australian Accounting Standards Board and Distinguished Professor of Accounting; University of Technology Sydney - click here for video
• Robert J Charnock, Co-investigator, Financial Reporting Council Scenario Analysis Research Project, conducted by Alliance Manchester Business School; Associate, Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Responsible Business, University of Birmingham - click here for video

Session C

PANEL - Thoughts and ideas from accounting practitioners and standard setters - click here for video

Moderator:
Ian Mackintosh, Chair; Corporate Reporting Dialogue

Speakers:

• Alexsandro Broedel Lopes, Trustee IFRS Foundation and CFO and Member of the Executive Committee of Itaú Unibanco
• Doug Johnston, Climate Change and Sustainability Services Partner; EY UK Financial Accounting Advisory Services
• Veronica Poole, Global IFRS and Corporate Reporting Leader; Deloitte
• Helen Slinger, Executive Director; The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S)
• Michael Zimonyi, Policy & External Affairs Director; Climate Disclosure Standards Board

Academic Spotlight Breakout

• Hans Christensen, Professor of Accounting and David G Booth Faculty Fellow; Chicago Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - click here for video
• Ioannis Ioannou, Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship; London Business School - click here for video

Session D

PANEL - Thoughts and ideas from accounting practitioners and standard setters - click here for video

Moderator:
Richard Spencer, Head of Sustainability and  Director of Thought Leadership; Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales (ICAEW)

Speakers:

• Jeffrey Hales, Chair, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and Charles T Zlatkovich Centennial Professor of Accounting; McCombs School of Business, University of Texas Austin
• Alan McGill, Global Head of Sustainability Reporting & Assurance; PricewaterhouseCoopers
• Nick Ridehalgh, Director, Lead Better Business Reporting; CFO Advisory; KPMG Australia
• Greg Rogers, Founder, Eratosthenes
• Alan Teixeira, Global Director of IFRS Research; Deloitte UK
• Alan Willis, Independent researcher, writer, and advisor; Chartered Professional Accountants, Canada

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS:
Greg Rogers - Carbon Quotient

Academic Spotlight Breakout

• Paul Griffin, Distinguished Professor of Management; Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis - click here for video
• Gordon Richardson, KPMG Professor of Accounting; Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto and Michael Marin, PhD student; Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto - click here for video
  
  SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS:
  Paul Griffin Energy Finance Must Account For Extreme Weather Risk

Session E

PANEL - Thoughts and ideas from accounting academics - click here for video

Moderator: Peter Easton, Notre Dame Alumni Professor of Accountancy and Academic Director, CARE; Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

Speakers:

• Richard Barker, Professor of Accounting and Associate Dean of Faculty; Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
• Robert Eccles, Founding Chairman, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and Visiting Professor of Management Practice; Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
• Christian Leuz, Joseph Sondheimer Professor of International Economics, Finance and Accounting; Chicago Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
• Shiva Rajgopal, Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing; Columbia Business School

SUPLEMENTAL MATERIALS:
Christian Leuz - Mandatory CSR and Sustainability Reporting Economic Analysis And Literature Review

Day 2 - September 29, 2021

Welcome Remarks - click here for video

Martijn Cremers, Martin J Gillen Dean and Bernard J Hank Professor of Finance; Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

Session F

PANEL - Thoughts and ideas from finance academics - click here for video

Moderator:
Martijn Cremers, Martin J Gillen Dean and Bernard J Hank Professor of Finance; Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame

Speakers:

• Andrew Karolyi, Harold Bierman, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management and Deputy Dean and Dean of Academic Affairs; SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University
• Martina Linnenlueke, Professor of Environmental Finance and Centre for Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Finance; Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University
• David Ng, Professor, and Founding Co-Director, Initiative on Responsible Finance and Area Coordinator for Finance; Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University
• Tom Smith, Head of Department of Applied Finance and Centre for Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Finance; Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University

Academic Spotlight Breakout

• Stefan Reichelstein, Director, Mannheim Institute for Sustainable Energy Studies, University of Mannheim; and William R. Timken Professor Emeritus; Stanford University - click here for video
• Naomi Soderstrom, Deputy Head of Department and Professor of Managerial Accounting; Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne - click here for video

Session G

PANEL - Thoughts and ideas from finance / investment practitioners - click here for video

Moderator:
Ryan LaFond, Deputy CIO; Algert Global LLC

Speakers:

• Don Hamson, Managing Director; Plato Investment Management
• Simon O'Connor, Chief Executive; Responsible Investment Association Australasia
• Lukasz Pomorski, Managing Director, Head of ESG Research; AQR Capital Management, LLC
• Andrew Porter, Immediate Past Chair, Group of 100; CFO for Listed Investment Companies, Australian Foundation Investment Company
• Gavin Smith, Managing Director, Head of Equity Research; PGIM Quantitative Solutions

Academic Spotlight Breakout

• Aaron Yoon, Assistant Professor of Accounting and Information Management; Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University - click here for video
• Sandra Vera-Munoz, Deloitte Foundation Department Chair of Accountancy and Associate Professor; Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame - click here for video

Session H

CONFERENCE KEYNOTE -  click here for video

Her Highness Princess Nouf bint Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Saud, Chief Executive Officer of the King Khalid Foundation

PANEL - Monetizing ESG Impact – A CFO Imperative - click here for video

Moderator:
Sunny Misser, Chief Executive Officer; AccountAbility

Speakers:

• Adam Barsky, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, New York Power Authority
• Sanford A. Cockrell III, Former Global Head - CFO Program Leader; Deloitte
• Elyse Douglas, Former Chief Financial Officer of Hertz; Senior Scholar, NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business
• Robert Herz, Executive in Residence at Columbia Business School; Member of the Board of Directors of the Value Reporting Foundation; Member of the Leadership Council of the Harvard Business School Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative; Board Member, AccountAbility

Academic Spotlight Breakout

• Johannes Stroebel, David S. Loeb Professor of Finance and Boxer Faculty Fellow; NUY Stern School of Business - click here for video
• Ayako Yasuda, Professor of Finance, Fellow of the Muir Institute for the Environment; University of California, Davis - click here for video
  
  SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS:
  Ayako Yasuda Impact Investing

Session I

PANEL - Implementation Issues - click here for video

Moderator:
Jeremy Deaton, Managing Editor; Yale E360

Speakers:

• Natalie Ambrosio-Preudhomme, Director, Communications; Four Twenty Seven, part of Moody’s ESG Solutions
• Paul Druckman, Chairman, WBA Supervisory Board; World Benchmarking Alliance
• Jason Huang, Managing Director, Quantitative Investment Department, eFunds
• Andrew Watson, Co-Founder, Rethinking Capital
• Jing Zhang, Managing Principal, Apricus Climate Ventures; Advisor, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board

Academic Spotlight Breakout

• Ethan Rouen, Assistant Professor of Business Administration; Harvard Business School - click here for video
• Stefano Giglio, Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management - click here for video

Session J

5:00 / 22:00

5:30 / 22:30

KEYNOTE - Youth Engagement - click here for video

Delaney Reynolds, Founder & CEO, The Sink or Swim Project; Marine Science Studies Major; Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami

PANEL - Youth Engagement - click here for video

Moderator:
Michelle Cook, Director, Bachelor of Accounting Program, University of Technology Sydney

Speakers:

• Alvaro Carrillo Marcano, Bachelor of Accountancy Student, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame; Summer Analyst, BlackRock
• Aaron Hilliker, Bachelor of Accountancy Student, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame; Intern, PWC
• Arashdeep Kaur Singh, Bachelor of International Business, University of Technology Sydney
• Serene Khalaf, Bachelor of Accounting Student, University of Technology Sydney
• Clare O'Rourke, Assistant Brand Manager, PepsiCo
• Megan Uhran, Analyst; Goldman Sachs  

CLOSING ADDRESS - click here for video

Peter Easton, Notre Dame Alumni Professor of Accountancy and Academic Director, CARE; Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame