Climate Change and Energy Transition: The Role of Green Finance in Sustainable Development
OVERVIEW
The conference cordially invites scholars, academicians, and practitioners to submit research papers for presentation consideration at the International Finance Conference that will take place on 13-14 September 2024 in XLRI, Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur, India, in residential mode.
The conference aims to bring the academic community and industry practitioners together to share their research and findings on the changing dynamics of financial markets and evolving challenges in finance. The meeting sets an ideal platform for researchers worldwide to present their research, exchange research ideas and experiences, and further research projects through collaborations.
The scientific and organizing committee welcomes submissions not restricted to only areas of finance and economics as the theme is multidisciplinary for presentation no later than 5 August 2024 (Early submission is highly encouraged).
Conference Chair: Ameet Kumar Banerjee
Professor Ameet Kumar Banerjee is the Finance Area Professor at XLRI- Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur. He has more than 2 decades of experience in industry and academics. He has published in internationally revered Journals of the ABDC category like Energy Economics, Finance Research Letters, Economic Letters, International Review of Economics and Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, Journal of Accounting Literature, Research in International Business and Finance, and Journal of Risk Finance. He also serves on the review board of more than 12 Journals.
Conference Co-Chair: Md Akhtaruzzaman
Associate Professor Md Akhtaruzzaman is a Head of Discipline in Accounting & Finance at Peter Faber Business School, Australian Catholic University. He is an elected Academic Board member of Australian Catholic University. He has 15 years of experience teaching and researching, built on extensive industry experiences, including as the board member of a credit rating company, Managing Director of a risk management consulting company in Singapore, and Assistant Vice President in a commercial bank. He is a Chartered Accountant (CA) and Certified Practising Accountant (CPA). He has secured the number one ranking in Australia in Finance, according to two key research metrics: citations per paper and the Field-Weighted Citation Index (FWCI) during 2018–2024. He has an FWCI of 17.02 (the Global benchmark is 1.00) and citations per paper of 102.4. He served as an Editorial Board member in Accounting & Finance (ABDC A-ranked). He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Accounting Literature (A-ranked). He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Risk Finance and the International Journal of Financial Studies.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Sushanta Mallick is a Professor of International Finance at Queen Mary’s School of Business and Management, United Kingdom. Since January 2015, he has been the Co-Editor-in-Chief of ‘Economic Modelling’ – a leading 38-year-old scholarly journal published by Elsevier. He is also the Co-editor of the Journal of Economic Survey. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick, UK, which he undertook after being awarded the Commonwealth Scholarship. In addition to publishing a book from his PhD research (Routledge Publishing, 1999), he has contributed articles to 15 edited volumes and frequently published in many international refereed journals. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles on international macroeconomics, banking & finance, and innovation & development issues. His work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance, European Journal of Operational Research, British Journal of Management, Economic Theory, Research Policy, IMF Economic Review, Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of International Money & Finance, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, and many others. As per the IDEAS/RePEc ranking, he is among the top 5% of economists.
Sabri Boubaker a Professor of Finance at EM Normandie Business School (Paris, France) and the University of Swansea (Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting (IF: 5.1, Scopus Q1, Clarivate Q1) and the recipient of “The Economic Research Foundation’s Research Award 2022” from the “Centrum for Forskning om Ekonomiska Relationer, Sweden” and the best corporate finance paper award at the 2023 Asian Finance Conference. Sabri Boubaker has recently published many academic papers (more than 100 papers) in international refereed journals, including the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Financial Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Auditing: A Journal of Theory & Practice, British Accounting Review and British Journal of Management. He has also edited twelve books on corporate finance, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility (Emerald Group Publishing, Springer Verlag, World Scientific Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan, Elsevier, Edward Elgar, etc.). He is also the co-director of the book series Transformations in Banking, Finance, and Regulation (World Scientific Publishing) and serves on the editorial boards of several accounting and finance academic journals such as the British Journal of Management, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions, and Money (Subject Editor), International Review of Financial Analysis (Associate editor), International Review of Economics and Finance (Associate editor), International Review of Economics and Finance (Associate editor) and International Journal of Finance & Economics (Associate editor). He is the co-founder and co-chair of the annual Paris Financial Management Conference and the Vietnamese Symposium in Banking and Finance.
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