Andrea Cardoni is Associate Professor (tenured as Full Professor) of Business Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Perugia, Italy. He currently teaches Strategic Analysis and Business Valuation classes at post-graduate level in the Business Administration Course. His current research interests include strategy and sustainability, management control, performance analysis and strategic networking.  Evgeniia (Vladimirovna) Kiseleva is a PhD in Business Economics awarded by the University of Perugia, Italy, and she is now a research fellow at the Faculty of Economic Sciences (Corporate Finance Center) at the HSE University, Russia. Her research focuses on sustainable value, sustainable governance, ESG ratings and the connection between ESG scores and financial performance. She taught Sustainability classes at the University of Perugia and has a background of work as a consultant on GRI and IR reports as well as CSR strategy for large Russian companies. During the last years, Evgeniia initiated the launch of the local ESG rating and participated in the implementation of this project.

• Shifts in corporate governance understanding.- ESG or sustainability agenda and its influence on the role of corporate governance.- Sustainable governance and its components.- Measurement of sustainable governance.- The role of sustainable governance in value generation of the company.- Sustainable governance in specific settings of listed and unlisted companies, SMEs and family business.- Best practice in sustainable governance development worldwide.- Sustainable governance in emerging economies.- The dependencies between sustainable governance and market value.- Sustainable governance and crises.- Challenges in sustainable corporate governance development