Under the aegis of the Europlace Finance Institute Foundation:

with Paris-Dauphine University, CALYON and EDF: 

Chair News

 The Finance and Sustainable Development Chair is a meeting point for exchange, reflection and research.
It brings together researchers, thinkers and international actors involved in the finance and sustainable development fields.
It is also a space for bringing together these two worlds, which would normally tend to mistrust one another in today's climate.
The Chair is a centre for progress and information, essential to society, which has great appeal as it offers new tools to economic and political leaders to help them better deal with issues of sustainable development.
The Finance and Sustainable Development Chair's mission is to define a body of knowledge on the question of sustainable development and finance, to conduct research on certain subjects and to make inroads into others, to be transversal (interdisciplinary), to be a place open to exchange and reflection, and to feed into teaching at Dauphine and other universities (Agro, Engref, Potytechnique, etc.) on the Chair's research areas.
The Chair also aims to become a key, central player in reflection on sustainable development by interacting with the financial world, therefore acting as a crucial source of advice for economic and political decision-makers.
Finance aims to make the international economic system both stable and sustainable, by guarding against economic, political, social, monetary, ethical and environmental risks.
Sustainable development, in turn, seeks to avoid irreversible damage to the environment and the structure of society, all the while guaranteeing a stable economy.
Finance and sustainable development also have a factor in common: they both have the goal of guaranteeing sustainability of systems in terms of medium and long-term risks.
These two sectors thus have a vocation to work together, providing mutual benefits and sharing expertise to work more efficiently together.
Today's financial sector represents a significant force, capable of changing the world, whereas sustainable development is a fundamental objective to be sought after to ensure that the planet does not become a worse place to live for our children.
They have mutual benefit in working together on the risks highlighted by sustainable development (energy, natural resources, biodiversity, north-south exchanges, development, global warming, etc.) since, if these risks are not overcome, they will have major repercussions on the political, social and financial balance of our planet.
The Finance and Sustainable Development Chair tackles research topics of direct interest of the two founding companies which sponsor this chair.
They will therefore be the first on the list when it comes to taking advantage of these areas.
Furthermore, their decision to support this chair shows society (students, the financial industry, the general public, NGOs...) their readiness to innovate and the importance they place on sustainable development and societal problems as a whole.
The same goes for Dauphine which, thanks to this chair, will once again be at the centre of a modern, cutting-edge dynamic identifiable with first-rank French expertise.

President of the Chair's Scientific Council:
- Pierre-Louis LIONS, Professor at Paris-Dauphine University and at the Collège de France

President of the Chair's Steering Committee:
- Claude Jean-Michel LASRY, Professor at Paris Dauphine University