About this Event
The Third Annual Responsible Business Workshop
The Responsible Business Institute (ReBI) at Strathclyde Business School will host the third edition of its Annual Responsible Business Workshop on 31 March 2026 at Strathclyde Business School.
This one-day workshop provides a forum for academic researchers, policy specialists, and industry professionals to discuss recent developments in research on responsible business and sustainable finance. The programme covers topics including supply chain sustainability, biodiversity-related risk, corporate governance, and investor responses to environmental regulation.
In addition to academic presentations, the workshop includes a session dedicated to policy and industry perspectives on sustainability and climate-related issues. Together, these discussions aim to highlight how insights from research, policy, and practice can inform the evolving landscape of responsible business.
Agenda
🕑: 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Reception
🕑: 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Public Scrutiny and Supply Chain Decarbonization
Host: Bin Xu (ICMA, University of Reading)
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Patent Information Access and Employment: Evidence from Patent Library Program
Host: Muhan Hu (Strathclyde)
🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Coffee Break
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Policy Insight
Host: Livia Pancotto (Strathclyde and BIS)
Info: Climate change and central banking: macroeconomic challenges and evidence from Africa
🕑: 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Industry Panel
Host: Livia Pancotto (Strathclyde and BIS, Moderator)
Info: Luke Baldwin is Chief Executive Officer at Nature Broking;
Ben Taylor is Partner of Climate Change and Sustainability Services at EY
Simon Thompson is the Author of Green & Sustainable Finance: Principles and Practice, and a former member of the Scottish Government Taskforce for Green and Sustainable Finance
🕑: 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Luch Break
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Rising Biodiversity Risk and Firm Exposure along the Supply Chain
Host: Viet Dang (University of Manchester)
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
Heterogeneous Institutional Investor Response to Environmental Regulatory Risk
Host: Linxiang Ma (Strathclyde)
🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Coffee Break
🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Optimal Peers
Host: Florian Peters (University of Amsterdam)
🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Does ESG-Linked Pay Green Bank Lending? Evidence from European Banking
Host: Rajat Jain (Strathclyde)
🕑: 05:00 PM
Closing Remark
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Strathclyde Business School, 199 Cathedral Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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