Dr. Karen Wendt holds an MBA of the Faculty of Social and Environmental Studies of Liverpool

University. She is the editor of the Springer Sustainable Finance book series and has

published in the filed of responsible investment banking, positive impact investing, and sustainable

financial innovation. She has more than 20 years of experience in investment banking with UniCredit

and has been introducing the first effective sustainability standard in investment and banking: the

Equator Principles in two top tier financial institutions. She has co-created the Equator Principles and

has been sitting on the board of the Equator Principles Financial Institutions Association (EPFI

Association. She is a internationally recognized expert for, sustainable finance and positive impact

investing an inspiring lecturer at internationally recognized universities, prominent Key Note Speaker

and serial entrepreneur. She has become the leading authority on integral investing, new forms of

investment and finance understanding impact investors preferences and characteristics advocating to

reinvent investment and finance. With her new monograph on social stock exchanges she moves

beyond the current narratives and provides target knowledge answering research question why

matching assets that create positive impact with investors is necessary and how it can be done in a

manner that is efficient, effective, transparent and scalable. In other words, Karen with her research is exploring ways to redirect investment and finance, to impact oriented investments compatible with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement turning around the investment philosophy.