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Stefano Battiston is an Associate Professor of Sustainable Finance Networks at the University of Zurich and serves as vice-chair of the Center of Competence for Sustainable Finance. He is a lead author of a chapter on Finance and Investment in the sixth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Battiston holds a part-time permanent position as Associate Professor at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy. With over 15 years of policy-relevant research in economics and finance, he has made significant strides in the understanding of financial interconnectedness and systemic risk in financial stability contexts. Battiston has directed influential research streams focused on climate-related financial risk, employing scientific methods to conduct climate stress tests on financial institutions. His research contributions feature in more than 50 publications in leading journals such as Science, PNAS, Management Science, Nature Communications, and Nature Climate Change. He coordinates several EU and Swiss projects aimed at enhancing financial sustainability. Notably, between 2014 and 2018, he served as the coordinator for the EU Future Emerging Technologies projects SIMPOL and DOLFINS, which explored improving financial stability through the sustainability channels in a networked economy.
Department of Law