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Gain a solid foundation in Sustainable Finance. Gain essential knowledge of ESG principles and sustainable finance to identify opportunities and create value in your organisation.
This online course is offered via Coursera.
Specialization - 3 course series
This introductory specialisation helps finance professionals and managers understand the basics of sustainability, ESG, and sustainable finance. Starting with fundamental concepts, you’ll then progress through the business applications of ESG and explore common sustainable finance products. The specialisation focuses on practical examples and real-world applications, making complex topics accessible for professionals new to sustainable finance and ESG.
Applied Learning Project
Through the specialisation, you will complete parts of a capstone project in each course. The capstone tasks across the three courses follow a fictional organisation's (GreenBank) journey to become a more sustainable financial institution, first conducting foundational stakeholder and ESG analysis (Course 1), then developing basic communication and reporting approaches (Course 2), and finally recommending suitable sustainable finance products (Course 3). Through these interconnected but standalone assessments, you will apply concepts from each course to help GreenBank address the authentic challenge of integrating sustainability into its operations and product offerings in a way that meets stakeholder expectations.
Course 1: Foundations of Sustainability and ESG
15 hours
Course 2: The Business Case for ESG
17 hours
Course 3: Sustainable Finance: Products, Instruments and Future Trends
14 hours
Instructor:
Amir Amel-Zadeh
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/about-us/people/amir-amel-zadeh
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amelzadeh/
Bio
Amir's research examines the effects of companies’ financial and non-financial information disclosures on capital markets and the mediating role of accounting standards and information intermediaries. Amir’s research has been published in leading academic and practitioner journals such as Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies, and Financial Analyst Journal. His work has been cited by the business press such as the Financial Times and the Guardian as well as in a variety of policy documents by the EU, Bank of International Settlements, IMF, World Economic Forum and by accounting standard setters. Amir has been invited to present his research at conferences and business schools across the globe and held visiting positions at Harvard Business School, at New York University Stern School of Business, at Columbia Business School, and at the University of Bologna. Prior to joining Oxford Saïd, Amir was at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He teaches on the MBA and Executive MBA as well as on executive programmes for legal and financial services professionals. He has taught or consulted for the financial services industry in the US, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He currently serves as Associate Editor for the Special Issue on Business and Climate Change at Management Science and is on the Editorial Board of Accounting and Business Research. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has co-authored and co-edited the book Accounting for M&A: Uses and Abuses of Accounting in Monitoring and Promoting Merger published by Routledge in 2020 Alongside his role at Saïd Business School, Amir is an associate member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance and Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford.
