NBS-PRI-ECGI Public Lecture Series - A Financial Handbook for Sustainability
Many boards and executive teams today are experiencing ESG fatigue, often struggling to see how sustainability initiatives translate into shareholder value. Yet sustainability is not just a compliance exercise—it has direct implications for firm value, risk management, and long-term business performance. While integrated reporting was created to bridge this gap, many reports still fall short, presenting sustainability metrics that are disconnected from financial outcomes.
In this session, participants will be introduced to a practical framework that links sustainability performance directly to company risk factors and financial statement line items. This enables organisations to better quantify the financial impact of sustainability-related decisions. Participants will also learn how to develop actionable KPIs that connect sustainability performance to measurable business value. In addition, the session will showcase AI-powered tools and prompts that can automate this analysis at scale, helping organisations accelerate the adoption of value-driven sustainability reporting and more informed decision-making.
Speaker:
Shiva Rajgopal
Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing
Columbia Business School
Columbia University
Moderator:
Eric Lim
Chief Sustainability Officer
United Overseas Bank
Events Details:
Date: 11 August 2026, Tuesday
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Venue: Hybrid (in-person at Lecture Theatre 1, Level 1, Wee Cho Yaw Plaza or online via Zoom)
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The NBS-PRI-ECGI Public Lecture Series is a new global joint initiative between Nanyang Business School (NBS), Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) and European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) to facilitate the knowledge exchanges between academics, practitioners, and policymakers in sustainable business.
The series provides monthly in-person or online public lectures. Each lecture will feature a leading academic to present cutting-edge research of a specific topic, and an industry expert to moderate the session, sharing insights from the field and also tailoring audience questions in a way to better enable bridging the gap between research and practice.