INTERVIEW WITH THE DEAN
BIOGRAPHY
Jörg Rocholl is president of ESMT Berlin and the Deutsche Bank professor in sustainable finance. He is chair of the advisory board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance and chair of the steering committee of the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM). Furthermore, he is a member of the supervisory board at RWE AG, a member of the board of the Schmalenbach Society, a member of Acatech (German Academy of Science and Engineering), a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Before joining ESMT in 2007, Rocholl was an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds a PhD in finance and economics and an MPhil from Columbia Business School, as well as a Diplom-Ökonom mit Auszeichnung (an economics degree with distinction) from Witten/Herdecke University in Germany. As a researcher, Rocholl’s interests are in sustainable finance, corporate finance, corporate governance, financial intermediation and central banking. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Finance , the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies and has been reported in leading international media. Rocholl is a research professor at the Ifo Institute in Munich, the vice-chair of the economic advisory board of Deutsche Welle, a council member of the Virchow Foundation for Global Health, a member of the sustainability advisory council of Deutsche Post DHL Group and a board member of the Public Governance Institute Germany. He worked with Boston Consulting Group in Frankfurt and London, as well as with Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and New York.
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