The 2025 International Conference on Sustainability, Environment, and Social Transition in Economics and Finance (SESTEF 2025) jointly organized by the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris School of Business, Ecole Polytechnique & University of Montenegro , with the support of CRECC Research Center (Paris School of Business), Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, Arco (Saudi Arabia), Emeraude Pianta (Tunisia) and OneHealthAI (France) will take place on December 10 to 12, 2025, Podgorica, Montenegro. The event aims to provide academics, policymakers, and practitioners with a valuable forum for discussion and critical analysis of the major issues and challenges that interrelate energy, environment, sustainability, social transition, economics and finance.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Partricia Crifo
Patricia Crifo is Professor of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique and researcher at CREST. She is also research fellow of the Institut des Politiques Publiques and external member of CIRANO (Montréal). At Ecole Polytechnique She is the academic director of the MscT Smart cities and urban policy, co-responsible of the center for Sustainable Finance and Responsible Investment (FDIR) and deputy director of the interdisciplinary intitiative Energy4climate.
She is member of the Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR)’s Supervisory College and Vice president of its Climate and Sustainable Finance Commission; of the Economic Council for Sustainable Development, the Greenfin and SRI label Committees, and of the French Social investment forum/PRI Jury. She is also member of the French Public Ethics Observatory. Patricia started her career as CNRS researcher in 2005, and became University Professor in 2006 through a French National Contest in Economics (Premier concours national d'agregation). She was Professor at the University of Haute Alsace between 2006 and 2009 and at the University Paris Nanterre between 2009 and 2019.
Former student of Ecole Normale Superieure Paris Saclay (Cachan), She graduated from a Master in Economics at University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and Ecole Centrale Paris in 1997 and obtained her PhD in Economics in 2001 at University of Lyon. She was nominated Best Young Economist by Le Monde/Cercle des économistes in 2010 and received the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite in 2014, and best young researcher in 2002 (Lyon).
Sadok El Ghoul
Sadok El Ghoul is a Professor of Business Administration at Campus Saint-Jean of the University of Alberta, where he teaches finance, international business and econometrics. He received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Laval University. Before joining the University of Alberta, he taught international financial management at Laval University.
His research interests include corporate finance, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, international finance, financial institutions, and the role of culture in financial markets. His work has been published in finance, management, international business, business ethics and accounting journals such as Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, Management Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, The Accounting Review and Contemporary Accounting Research.
Prof. El Ghoul received the McCalla Professorship at the University of Alberta in 2013-2014. He has won several awards including the Moskowitz Prize for the Best Paper in Socially Responsible Investing in 2011, the best paper award in financial institutions at the Southwestern Finance Association conference in 2012, the Korea Development Bank outstanding paper award at the Conference on Asia–Pacific Financial Markets in 2013, the best paper award at the World Business Ethics Forum in 2016, and the best paper award in emerging economies research at the Academy of International Business meeting in 2018.
He is an associate editor at the Journal of Banking & Finance, a subject editor at Emerging Markets Review, and an editorial board member of several other academic journals. In 2017, he received the Martha Cook Piper Research Prize, which recognizes two University of Alberta faculty members in the early stage of their careers.
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