Field of research: Sustainable Finance

Agnes Lubloy

Agnes Lubloy is a Professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and a lead researcher at the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS). She has led and contributed to several cross-country public health projects, including assessments of the economic burden of migraine in Latvia and Lithuania, evaluations of cost savings from medication reviews in Estonian community pharmacies, and population-based studies of health literacy. Her work has been published in leading journals such as BMC Public Health, Archives of Public Health, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, and BMC Health Services Research. In parallel, she also conducts research in sustainable finance, with recent publications examining corporate greenwashing and social washing.

Beatrice Weder di Mauro

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Beatrice Weder di Mauro is a Swiss economist and the President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) since 2018. She is also Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Research Professor and Distinguished Fellow-in-Residence at the Emerging Markets Institute of INSEAD Singapore, and a Senior Fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER).

Before joining CEPR, Beatrice Weder di Mauro served as a member of the German Council of Economic Experts from 2004 to 2012, becoming both the first woman and the first non-German to hold this position. Over the years, she has advised former German Chancellors Gerhard Schröder and Angela Merkel and served on the boards of several global corporations, including UBS, Roche, and ThyssenKrupp. She currently sits on the boards of Unigestion and Robert Bosch GmbH.

Her research interests include international macroeconomics, international finance, sustainable finance, impact investment, financial crises, and sovereign debt. She has published widely in leading academic journals and contributes regularly to the public policy debate through op-eds and media commentary.

Weder di Mauro earned her Doctorate and Habilitation in Economics from the University of Basel. Her career includes positions at the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and United Nations University, as well as visiting roles at Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

She has also served as a consultant to numerous international organizations, including the IMF, World Bank, OECD Development Centre, European Commission, and European Central Bank. In 2020, she was appointed by the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe to the Pan-European Commission on Health and Sustainable Development, chaired by Mario Monti.

(Last updated September 2025)