Ulrich Volz joins senior officials from climate-vulnerable countries at OECD Development Talk event to discuss solutions to the looming debt crisis in the Global South

Professor Ulrich Volz joined senior officials from climate-vulnerable countries, the IMF and civil society to discuss the looming debt crisis in the Global South.

20th January 2022

Research by Senior Fellow Moritz Kraemer on “The Effect of Climate Change on Sovereign Creditworthiness” shortlisted for the Financial Time’s Responsible Business Education Awards 2022

Research by Moritz Kraemer, Senior Fellow at the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance, with colleagues at the University of Cambridge was shortlisted for the Financial Time’s Responsible Business Education Awards 2022.

19th January 2022

Professor Ulrich Volz writes foreword to World Wide Fund for Nature’s first annual report on Sustainable Financial Regulations and Central Bank Activities

Ulrich Volz, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at SOAS, wrote a foreword to World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) inaugural annual report on Sustainable Financial Regulations and Central Bank Activities (SUSREG).

28th October 2021

New Research Report from the Centre of Sustainable Finance: “The Price of Hesitation: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Price Stability and What the ECB Must Do about It”

A new report published by Greenpeace, the German Institute for Economic Research and the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance presents for the first time empirical evidence of the impact of natural disasters on inflation in the eurozone, highlighting the challenges facing the ECB to achieve price stability in the era of the climate crisis.

9th September 2021

SOAS PhD student becomes the first winner of the APORDE Young Scholars' Prize

Julia Ngozi Chukwuma, PhD student in Economics, has become the first winner of the APORDE 2021 Prize for Young Scholars. 

20th August 2021

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