Conference Agenda

Zacharias Sautner is Professor of Finance at the University of Zurich. Zacharias Sautner works in the area of empirical corporate finance and focuses on ESG, climate finance, and corporate governance. His research was published in leading international journals such as the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science or Review of Finance and he has presented at conferences such as the AFA, WFA, and EFA. He was ranked #2 in Germany in Business Administration (#1 in Finance) based on A+ publications (age of 40 or below) by Forschungsmonitoring.org (February 2019).
Zacharias Sautner holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Mannheim and studied at University of York and University of Cooperative Education Stuttgart.

Panelists include:
Cristina Cruz, Academic Director of the IE Center for Families in Business
Ricardo Gimeno, Deputy Head of Operations Department, Banco de España
Gonzalo Gomez-Betancourt, CEO, Legacy and Management Consulting Group
Joseph McCahery, Tilburg Law and Economic Center (TILEC), Tilburg University
Ernesto Barcelo Rodriguez, Chief ESG Officer, Gestamp

Amy Hillman is the Rusty Lyon Chair of Strategy and former Dean of the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Her areas of interest include corporate political strategies, boards of directors, and corporate strategy. Her research includes over 30 peer-reviewed articles published in leading journals such as Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, and Administrative Science Quarterly. She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Management in 2014, is a Founding Fellow of the International Corporate Governance Society and was elected a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society in 2020. She is former Editor of Academy of Management Review and a former Associate Editor of Academy of Management Journal. She also serves or has served on the Editorial Review Boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Business Horizons, and Journal of International Business Studies. She has received six outstanding reviewer awards from these journals.
In addition to her service to the profession through editorial roles, Amy is currently Vice President Elect and Program Chair of the Academy of Management.

Panelists include:
Leticia Alvarez Alsonso, co-founder and chief sustainability officer, yourESGadvisor
Ariadna Dumitrescu, ESADE
Patricia Gabaldon, IE University
María Rotondo Urcola, Teléfonica, CACEIS