Thomas Walker is the Executive Director (Academic) of the Institute for Sustainable Finance, the Director of the Jacques Ménard - BMO Centre for Capital Markets at Concordia University, and the Concordia University Research Chair in Emerging Risk Management. In 2018, Dr. Walker co-founded the Emerging Risks Information Center, which conducts targeted research on environmental, technological, and societal risks that affect our world today. He holds an MBA and PhD degree in Finance from Washington State University. Prior to his academic career, he worked for several years in the German consulting and industrial sector. His research interests are in sustainable finance, emerging risk management, fintech, and banking, and he has published over eighty journal articles in these areas. He is the lead editor of seventeen books on sustainable financial systems, sustainable real estate, sustainable aviation, environmental policy, emerging risk management, innovations in social finance, and water risk management, among others.
Dieter Gramlich is a Professor of Banking & Finance at DHBW - Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Heidenheim, where he serves as the head of the banking department. He received his PhD from the University of Mannheim and his Habilitation degree from the University of Halle. His main research focuses on financial risk and return management, systemic financial stability, and sustainable finance. He has published widely in these areas and has co-edited the Palgrave Macmillan books Ecological, Societal, and Technological Risks and the Financial Sector, Water Risk and Its Impact on the Financial Markets and Society, Water Risk Modeling, and Artificial Intelligence, Finance, and Sustainability. He was the deputy chair of banking and finance at the University of Halle, a visiting professor at Cleveland State University and the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank and is a recurring visiting scholar at Concordia University, Montreal, where he recently co-founded the Emerging Risks Information Center.