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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.

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Carbon taxes

Per Strömberg, professor at the Department of Finance, affiliated researcher at the Swedish House of Finance 

Area 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 
Language: English, Swedish 

Gender and environmental policy

Pamela Campa, associate professor at Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics and affiliated researcher at the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets 

Area 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 8024 
Language: English, Italian  

Green industrial transition

Mara Bălașa, PhD Fellow at the Department of Marketing and Strategy, affiliated researcher at the 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

Kaisa Koskela-Huotari, associate professor at the Department of Marketing and Strategy, affiliated researcher with the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets 

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  
Language: English, Finnish  

Suvi Nenonen, professor at the 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 
Language: English 

Sustainable transformation

Mattia Bianchi, professor at the 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 
Language: English 

Magnus Mähring, professor and Head of the Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology, Director of the House of Innovation, affiliated researcher at the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets 

Area 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 

Green investments 

Anders Anderson, associate professor and Director of the 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 

Social sustainability 

Lin Lerpold, associate professor at the Department of Marketing and Strategy; Director of the SIR Center for Sustainability Research (CSR); Vice Director of the Sustainable Finance Lab 

Area 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 
Language: English, Swedish

Sustainable finance

Marcus Opp, professor at the Department of Finance and affiliated researcher at the Swedish House of Finance 

Area of expertise:

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

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

Hanna Setterberg, affiliated researcher at the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets 

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 
Language: English, Swedish 

Sustainability in global supply chains 

Constantin Blome, professor at the House of Innovation, Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology 

Area 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 

Torkel Strömsten, associate professor at the Department of Accounting, Director of the Accounting Frameworks platform at the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets 

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, or 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 
Language: English, Swedish 

Sustainability in retail 

Sara Rosengren, professor at the Department of Marketing and Strategy 

Area of expertise:

  • Sustainability transformation of retail and consumer markets. 

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

Related: 

Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets 
Center for Sustainability Research