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The Centre for Unframed Thinking (CUT), the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) of Rennes School of Business, France is inviting as part of its programme Organising Towards or Against Extinction? To the workshop on

Building Better Businesses through Impact Investments

Speakers:

Dieter Vanwalleghem, Assistant Professor at Rennes SB speaking about Impact Investment: Concepts and Institutions

Christoph Polin, Sustainable Investments Director at Schneider Electric talking about Impact Investment Practices in France

Jessica Jeffers, Associate Professor at HEC talking about Impact investing in private markets

Julia Roloff, Full Professor at Rennes SB talking about The Theory of Change of Impact Investment

This hybrid event takes place on February 7^th at 16:00-18:00 (CET) at Rennes School of Business in Labo 221- Building 4 and online under the following link: https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/microsoft-teams/join-a-meeting?rtc=1

Dr. Dieter Vanwalleghem is Assistant professor of Finance at Rennes School of Business, France and director of the international MBA program (iMBA) at Rennes School of Business. Dieter has obtained a PhD in Finance from the Wharton business school of the University of Pennsylvania and a master's in financial economics from the University of Oxford, UK. Dieter Vanwalleghem is specialized in the areas of sustainable and responsible finance and the effect of culture on financial markets and transactions. He published his research in peer reviewed journals such as the Journal of World Business, Emerging Markets Review and Economics Letters.

Dr. Jessica Jeffers is associate professor of Finance at HEC Paris where she holds the R&Co chair for Data and Impact Investment alongside Ferdinand Petra. She is also a research affiliate with CEPR and a founding member of the Impact Finance Research Consortium. Jessica studies empirical corporate finance, with a special interest in labor and finance, entrepreneurship, law, and sustainability.  Jessica earned her PhD in finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and her BA in economics and mathematics from Yale University. Prior to coming to HEC, she was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Booth. Jessica's research has been published in top journals such as the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics.

Dr. Julia Roloff is Full Professor for Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics at Rennes School of Business, France. She has studied sociology, psychology, political sciences and ethnography in Marburg, Hamburg and Cairo, and received a doctorate in social sciences from the International Graduate School Zittau, Germany. Her research is focussed on corporate social responsibility in supply chains and on stakeholder networks. She conducted studies in Europe and in Africa in various sectors such as the textile, mining and automotive industry. Julia Roloff led for five years the Centre for Responsible Business in Rennes. She edits the section on Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics of the Journal of Business Ethics since 2014 and also edited submissions on the subject of Social Entrepreneurship until 2020. Her research has been published in various journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics, BEER, International Journal of Human Resource Management and Journal of Business Strategy.

Christophe Poline is the Director of Solidarity Investments within the Sustainable Development Department of Schneider Electric since 2009. After creating Schneider Electric's Solidarity Employee Savings system in France, he oversees the management of its solidarity component. This fund invests both in France and Europe in socially responsible enterprises working to combat energy precarity, and in Sub-Saharan Africa, it targets social enterprises providing reliable access to renewable electricity in rural and peri-urban areas. Christophe also led the establishment of a €75 million impact fund dedicated to rural electrification in East Africa, in collaboration with major European development banks. Christophe previously was an international financial controller at Schneider Electric, responsible for the balance sheet structure of Schneider Electric's subsidiaries in Europe and Asia. He also contributed to the design of Schneider Electric Group's Management Control System, implementing new concepts to replace the annual budgeting process, aiming to enhance the responsiveness and flexibility of managerial decision-making. Christophe holds a degree in law from ESSEC.

Kind regards / Bien cordialement,