Christophe REVELLI

Christophe REVELLI is Professor of Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing at Kedge Business School. He is also the holder of the CANDRIAM/KEDGE “Finance Reconsidered: Addressing Sustainable Economic Development” research chair, and board member at French Social Investment Forum (French SIF). He founded in 2016 and managed during 6 years the first European Master (MSc Sustainable Finance) fully dedicated to the integration of sustainable issues and criteria into financial decisions. He graduated from the University of Montpellier (Ph.D. in Management Sciences). His courses focus exclusively in the field of responsible, sustainable and green finance, the critical approach of modern financial theory as well as impact investing (Impact Investment Challenge; Sustainable Finance; Sustainable Investment Strategies; Impact of Investments and Extra-Financial Performance). He also proposes numerous intra-trainings for asset managers or investment funds on how to implement sustainable strategies into financial practices. His research interests are focused on the integration of sustainability and business ethics models in corporations and financial system. The main objective of his research is to make propositions for new financial instruments serving the objective of embeddedness of finance into economics and thus society and biosphere (ESG data and information, sovereign green bonds, ecological risk-free asset, ESG and climate risk modeling in asset pricing, regulation of financial institutions, drivers of sustainability for corporations to fulfill SDGs…). He is an active member of several research and professional networks (Post-Crisis Finance Network PoCFin, SDSN, RIODD, AREF, New Finance and Sustainability New FAS…), and also very active in the media, where he publishes numerous contributions (Marianne, Le Monde, Alternatives Economiques, L’Infodurable, Novethic, Management, Le Figaro, La Tribune, Libération, The Huffington Post, The Conversation, The Financial Times, Xerfi Canal, RTL, Europe 1…) Christophe REVELLI received in 2012 the RIODD-VIGEO research prize for his Ph.D. entitled “Financial Performance of Socially Responsible Investing (SRI): Meta-analytical approach” and the SAB Trophy 2015 for the best article in Sustainable Finance for his article “Should Consider Islamic Investors SRI Criteria in their Investment Strategies?”. His paper "Financial performance of SRI: What have we learned? A meta-analysis" has been awarded by the journal Business Ethics: A European Review as the 2nd best paper published by the journal in the 2015-2020 period. He also received the FIR-PRI award 2018 for the best European pedagogical innovation in Sustainable Finance (for the MSc Sustainable Finance). Her master's thesis student Mélanie Comble received also the FIR-PRI award 2019 for the best master thesis in Sustainable Finance.