Appointment of Barbara Buchner as Professor in Practice at the Centre for Sustainable Finance

The SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Barbara Buchner as Professor in Practice for Sustainable Finance.

2nd August 2021

SOAS Economics reports balanced gender representation in both its staff and student-body

A recent report by the Royal Economic Society reveals that women are still under-represented in UK economics academia, yet SOAS Economics is an expectation to this trend with a balanced gender representation in both its staff and student-body. 

16th July 2021

Yannis Dafermos and Ulrich Volz spoke at the ‘Green Swan Conference’

SOAS researchers contributed at major conference on climate risk and financial markets hosted by the Band for International Settlements, Banque de France, International Monetary Fund, and the Network of Central Banks and Financial Supervisors for Greening the Financial System.

4th June 2021

Europe’s Central Banks Need to be More Aligned with Climate Neutrality Target

New report by the LSE Grantham Research Institute and the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance highlights the need for European central banks to “mainstream net-zero” across all their operations to align them with the climate neutrality targets of the European Union and the member states.

24th May 2021

COVID-19 and crises of capitalism: special journal issue guest edited by SOAS Economics academics

18th May 2021

Ulrich Volz Presents on ‘Inclusive Green Finance’ at the G-24/AFI Policymaker’s Roundtable at the Virtual 2021 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group

13th April 2021

Central banks must play clear role in reaching goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions to tackle climate change

Central Banks, including the Bank of England, the Banque de France, the European Central Bank and the United States Federal Reserve System, must each have an explicitly strategy for helping countries to achieve net-zero emissions, according to a report published today (15 March 2021) jointly by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS University of London.

15th March 2021

Professor Jan Toporowski appointed to the Council of the Progressive Economy Forum

5th February 2021

SOAS Economics to Co-Investigate UKRI Funded Project

5th February 2021

Ulrich Volz to Host Fireside Chat on the Future of Central Banking with the Former Governor of Pakistan’s Central Bank and the Deputy Governor of Brazil’s Central Bank

25th January 2021

ECB’s purchasing policies skewed towards carbon-intensive industries – report

29th October 2020

SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance Publishes New Report on ‘Climate Change and Sovereign Risk

12th October 2020

SOAS and the Royal Veterinary College to collaborate on research project to tackle infectious disease and AMR challenges

25th August 2020

Remembering John Weeks, Emeritus Professor of Economics

6th August 2020

Call for Papers for the Fifth Annual Conference of the Japan Economy Network at Columbia University, New York City, 20-21 November 2020 [Rescheduled because of COVID-19]

27th April 2020