ESG Warsaw 2020. e-Conference

ESG Warsaw is a e-conference with presentations and discussions on a socially responsible investing and sustainable business. This year we prepared for you special workshops that you may participate in! CFA Society Poland’s representatives will share their knowledge during:

1. Presentation: Women in leadership positions and a company performance

2. Panel discussion (in English): The road to responsibility. Where it starts, the most difficult stages, benefits of the goal

3. Workshop: Fundamentals of SASB Standards – the future of non-financial reporting

In addition, our special guest, a speaker at CFA Institute conferences, professor Pedro Matos, Academic Director, Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management will talk about:

4. ESG and resposnible investing from the global perspective. A presentation held in English

The current agenda is available at the official website of ESG Warsaw 2020. Check the agenda »

Meet our speaker

Pedro Matos
John G. Macfarlane Family Chair and Professor of Business Administration
Academic Director of Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management

Education: B.A., Universidade Nova de Lisboa; M.S., IST Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa and INSEAD; Ph.D., INSEAD

Pedro Matos is the academic director of the Richard A. Mayo Center for Asset Management, holds the John G. Macfarlane Family Chair in Business Administration and is a professor of business administration (Finance) at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.

His research focuses on the growing importance of institutional investors in financial markets worldwide. His work has been published in top academic journals and featured in the press, including in The Economist, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Fortune and Forbes. Matos is a research associate at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and his work has received numerous research grants and awards.

At Darden, Matos has published numerous case studies and has won the Wells Fargo Award for Excellence in Course Material Development (twice), the Wells Fargo Award for Outstanding Research Publication and the Darden Multiyear Publications Award. He previously taught at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, where he received a Golden Apple teaching award.

Matos holds a B.A. in economics from Nova University in Lisbon (Portugal) and a Ph.D. in finance from INSEAD in Fontainebleau (France). Prior to his Ph.D., he worked with the Portuguese Ministry of Finance and consulted for the World Bank.

Organizers: NN Investment Partners, CFA Society Poland, ERSTE Securities Polska, GPW

A participation in the conference by e-mail invitation.