Professor in Sustainable Finance and Accounting, Avans University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Marleen Janssen Groesbeek is a professor in Sustainable Finance and Accounting at Avans University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. Before she joined Avans she was a Sustainability Manager at DSM, a listed chemical company and a Sustainability policy advisor for a large group of investors active on the Dutch equity market representing more than US$ 5000 billion AUM.
From 1990 until 2010 she was financial journalist at the leading financial newspaper in the Netherlands. She published several books on sustainability. Marleen is an economist, graduated at the University of Amsterdam.
How can financial institutions create a positive impact while optimizing financial returns? Finance will only flex its social- and environmental-impact muscles when it becomes accessible to everyday investors, savers, and companies.