Sustainability experts

Climate change, green investments and social justice – sustainability covers many areas. Here you'll find a list of experts at the Stockholm School of Economics who studies different aspects of sustainability.

Climate and environmental policy

Julius Andersson

Assistant Professor, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics; Affiliated Researcher, House of Sustainable Society

Areas of expertise:

  • Effectiveness of carbon taxes in reducing greenhouse gas emissions
  • Impact of carbon taxes on consumers and income inequality
  • Carbon taxation design and implementation

Email: Julius.Andersson@hhs.se
Phone: +46 (0)701 081 230
Languages: English, Swedish

Pamela Campa

Associate Professor, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics; Affiliated Researcher, House of Sustainable Society

Areas of expertise:

  • Effect of female representation on policy outcomes like environmental policies
  • Enforcement of environmental regulation, environmental and climate policy, corporate environmental responsibility

Email: pamela.campa@hhs.se
Phone: +46 (0)8 736 96 86; +46 (0)72 449 80 24
Languages: English, Italian

Gabe Eckhouse

Assistant Professor, Center for Philosophies of Markets

Areas of expertise:

  • The political economy of the energy transition: the rescaling of oil and gas under decarbonization and debates over energy scenarios and modeling
  • Critical mineral supply chains and the industrial politics of the green transition
  • EV battery markets and the uneven development of clean energy industries

Email: gabe.eckhouse@hhs.se
Phone: +46 79 357 20 99
Languages: English

Per Strömberg

Professor, Department of Finance; Affiliated Researcher, Swedish House of Finance

Areas of expertise:

  • Climate policy and firm productivity, carbon pricing, biofuel blending requirements
  • Corporate governance, stakeholders, ESG

Email: Per.Stromberg@hhs.se
Phone: +46 (0)8 736 91 19
Languages: English, Swedish

Industrial transformation and production systems

Mara Bălașa

PhD Fellow, Department of Marketing and Strategy; Affiliated Researcher, Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communications

Areas of expertise:

  • Decarbonization of heavy industries: green steel, green hydrogen, green ammonia, e-methanol and decarbonization of fertilizers
  • Geopolitics and strategic competitiveness related to industrial green transitions and environmental and industrial policy
  • Green financial instruments, carbon contracts for difference, impact investing

Email: Mara.balasa@hhs.se
Phone: +46 (0)76 044 5735
Languages: English, Swedish, Romanian

Constantin Blome

Professor, House of Innovation, Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Areas of expertise:

  • Climate-related supply chain risks, circular economy in supply chains
  • Green supply chains, ESG considerations in procurement

Email: constantin.blome@hhs.se
Phone: +46 (0)72 076 2310
Languages: English

Kaisa Koskela-Huotari

Associate Professor, Department of Marketing and Strategy; Affiliated Researcher, House of Sustainable Society

Areas of expertise:

  • Market strategies and dynamics associated with forest management and the multiple uses of forests, for example wood production, carbon sequestration, recreation, and biodiversity conservation

Email: Kaisa.Koskela.Huotari@hhs.se
Languages: English, Finnish

Suvi Nenonen

Professor, Department of Marketing and Strategy

Areas of expertise:

  • How markets can be transformed to support sustainability goals, including the role of diverse stakeholders in driving sustainable market practices in traditional industries like the forest industry

Email: Suvi.Nenonen@hhs.se
Languages: English

Torkel Strömsten

Associate Professor, Department of Accounting; Director, Accounting Frameworks Platform, House of Sustainable Society

Areas of expertise:

  • Climate risk accounting and social sustainability in global supply chains
  • Green industry, green manufacturing, sustainability reporting
  • Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), meaning climate-related disclosures that companies and financial institutions can use to better inform investors, shareholders and the public of their climate-related financial risks

Email: torkel.stromsten@hhs.se
Phone: +46 (0)8 736 9305
Languages: English, Swedish

Circular economy and resource use

Nurit Nobel

Affiliated Researcher, Center for Sustainability Research; Center for Retailing; Sustainable Finance Lab

Areas of expertise:

  • Consumer behavior and sustainability: how consumers make decisions about daily behaviors affecting sustainability and decarbonization (recycling, consumption, transportation, energy efficiency)
  • Climate adaptation and climate risk: how homeowners make sense of risk from looming climate disasters (wildfires, floods, etc.) and the need to prepare their home for climate adaptation
  • Circular business models: how firms can accelerate the move to a circular economy and make it appealing for consumers via facilitating repair, takeback programs, and secondhand marketplaces

Email: nurit.nobel@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish

Susanne Sweet

Associate Professor, Department of Marketing and Strategy

Areas of expertise:

  • Sustainable fashion, including policies, business models and consumer trends that reduce environmental impact in the clothing industry (e.g. reuse, recycling, circular economy in textiles)
  • Sustainability regulations and implementation, including what policies work, how firms translate sustainability principles into real practices, what incentives might help push sustainable business practices
  • How to foster inclusive practices in socially vulnerable areas

Email: susanne.sweet@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish

Consumption, markets and behavior

Aylin Cakanlar

Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing and Strategy

Areas of expertise:

  • How can we ensure that consumers recycle correctly?
  • How can we increase consumers’ engagement in sustainable behavior?
  • How do consumers' ideological beliefs impact their participation in sharing economy practices?

Email: aylin.cakanlar@hhs.se
Phone: 0720 361 466
Languages: English, Swedish (conversational), Turkish

Sara Rosengren

Professor, Department of Marketing and Strategy

Areas of expertise:

  • Sustainability transformation of retail and consumer markets

Email: sara.rosengren@hhs.se
Phone: +46 (0)8 736 95 67
Languages: English, Swedish

Finance, investment and reporting

Anders Anderson

Associate Professor; Director, Swedish House of Finance, Department of Finance

Areas of expertise:

  • Green preferences and socially responsible investments
  • Link between climate-related concerns and financial decisions among consumers (the SUSY monitor)
  • Factors driving or hindering investments in green assets, including the role of financial literacy and political polarization
  • Cost and effectiveness of electric bike subsidies

Email: anders.anderson@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish

Emilia Cederberg

Assistant Professor, Department of Accounting

Areas of expertise:

  • Sustainability reporting, carbon accounting, and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) target-setting
  • How environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are embedded in financial analysis and asset management decisions

Email: emilia.cederberg@hhs.se
Languages: English, Swedish

Marcus Opp

Professor, Department of Finance; Affiliated Researcher, Swedish House of Finance

Areas of expertise:

  • Impact of ESG regulations and taxonomies on greenwashing and sustainable investment standards

Email: marcus.opp@hhs.se
Languages: English

Hanna Setterberg

Affiliated Researcher, House of Sustainable Society

Areas of expertise:

  • Green bonds, sustainable finance, monetization of ESG in investment decisions, sustainability reporting

Email: hanna.setterberg@hhs.se
Phone: +46 (0)70 773 70 81
Languages: English, Swedish

Business transformation and innovation

Mattia Bianchi

Professor, House of Innovation, Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology

Areas of expertise:

  • How new business models and technologies can support companies and industries in their sustainable transformation

Email: Mattia.Bianchi@hhs.se
Languages: English

Magnus Mähring

Professor and Department Head, Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology; Director, House of Innovation

Areas of expertise:

  • The importance, and challenges, of multi-actor collaborations in driving innovation for grand challenges
  • Societal digital infrastructures — promises, perils, and ways of developing collaborative innovation ecosystems to address grand challenges

Email: Magnus.mahring@hhs.se
Phone: +46 (0)709 137 401
Languages: English, Swedish, German

Social sustainability and inclusion

Lin Lerpold

Associate Professor, Department of Marketing and Strategy; Director, SIR Center for Sustainability Research (CSR); Vice Director, Sustainable Finance Lab

Areas of expertise:

  • How and why social sustainability is achieved for thriving societies, including equitable and inclusive access to resources such as affordable housing, education, healthcare, and safe and inclusive public spaces for all members of society

Email: lin.lerpold@hhs.se
Phone: +46 (0)72 576 99 42
Languages: English, Swedish