Yrjo Koskinen

Yrjö Koskinen the Associate Dean of Research and Business Impact and the BMO Professor of Sustainable and Transition Finance at the Haskayne School of Business. Previously he has served on the faculties of Stockholm School of Economics, Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He holds an MSc degree in Economics from the University of Helsinki, and a PhD in Management (Finance) from INSEAD. Prior to his academic career, Yrjö worked as a financial journalist and as an economist at the Bank of Finland.

Yrjö currently serves on the advisory board of the Institute of Sustainable Finance at Queen’s University, the academic advisory panel for Globe and Mail’s Report on Business, and the steering committee for the Canadian Sustainable Finance Network. He is also a fellow at the Nordic Initiative in Corporate Economics and a research member at the European Corporate Governance Institute. He is the past co-president of the Northern Finance Association.

Yrjö’s main research areas are corporate finance and governance, and sustainable finance. His current research focuses on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues and how they affect trading and prices in financial markets. His research has been published in the leading finance and management journals, such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Review of Finance. He is the recipient of the Standard Life Investments Finance Prize for his research on corporate social responsibility and firm risk.

Areas of Research

Sustainable Finance, Corporate Governance, ESG

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) INSEAD (1992 — 1999)
• Master's degree University of Helsinki (1984 — 1991)