Dr. Karen Wendt holds an MBA of the Faculty of Social and Environmental Studies of LiverpoolUniversity. She is the editor of the Springer Sustainable Finance book series and haspublished in the filed of responsible investment banking, positive impact investing, and sustainablefinancial innovation. She has more than 20 years of experience in investment banking with UniCreditand has been introducing the first effective sustainability standard in investment and banking: theEquator Principles in two top tier financial institutions. She has co-created the Equator Principles andhas been sitting on the board of the Equator Principles Financial Institutions Association (EPFIAssociation. She is a internationally recognized expert for, sustainable finance and positive impactinvesting an inspiring lecturer at internationally recognized universities, prominent Key Note Speakerand serial entrepreneur. She has become the leading authority on integral investing, new forms ofinvestment and finance understanding impact investors preferences and characteristics advocating toreinvent investment and finance. With her new monograph on social stock exchanges she movesbeyond the current narratives and provides target knowledge answering research question whymatching assets that create positive impact with investors is necessary and how it can be done in amanner that is efficient, effective, transparent and scalable. In other words, Karen with her research is exploring ways to redirect investment and finance, to impact oriented investments compatible with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement turning around the investment philosophy.
