Zacharias is Professor of Sustainable Finance at University of Zurich and Senior Chair at the Swiss Finance Institute. He works on sustainable finance, ESG, climate finance, and biodiversity finance. Through his research on ESG topics, he provides insights on how finance can contribute to a more sustainable future. His research was downloaded more than 100,000 times on SSRN. 

His research was published in leading international journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics.

He is an Associate Editor at the Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking & Finance, and Journal of Corporate Finance, a Regular Research Visitor at the ECB, and an advisor of asset management companies on sustainable finance issues. He is a Director of the European Finance Association.

At University of Zurich, Zacharias co-heads the Initiative in Sustainable Finance, one of the world's leading clusters for research on sustainable finance.

Anthony Saunders is the John M. Schiff Professor of Finance at NYU Stern. Professor Saunders received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and has taught both undergraduate and graduate level courses at NYU since 1978. Throughout his academic career, his teaching and research have specialized in financial institutions and international banking. He has served as a visiting professor all over the world, including INSEAD, the Stockholm School of Economics, and the University of Melbourne.

Professor Saunders holds positions on the Board of Academic Consultants of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors as well as the Council of Research Advisors for the Federal National Mortgage Association. In addition, Dr. Saunders has acted as a visiting scholar at the comptroller of the Currency and at the Federal Monetary Fund. He is an editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance and the Journal of Financial Markets, Instruments and Institutions, as well as an associate editor of eight other journals, including Financial Management and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. His research has been published in all of the major finance and banking journals and in several books. He has just published a new edition of his textbook, Financial Institutions Management: Risk Management Perspective for McGraw-Hill (4th edition) as well as a 2nd edition of his book on Credit Risk Measurement for John Wiley & Sons (with Linda Allen).

Mariassunta Giannetti is the Katarina Martinson Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics, a Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) research fellow, and a research member and fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Professor Giannetti?s research, published in leading journals in Finance, Economics, and Management, spans topics in corporate finance and financial intermediation, including production networks and trade credit, intermediaries? organizational structures and fire sales, banking and monetary policy, financial integration, and corporate governance and sustainability. Her research has earned recognition and awards, including an ECGI fellowship for scientific excellence in corporate governance research, the Assar Lindbeck Medal, the NYU Stern/ Imperial/ Fordham Rising Star in Finance award, the Sun Yefang Financial Innovation Award, the Review of Finance Pagano-Zechner Prize, the ECGI Standard Life Investments Finance Prize, the Journal of Financial Intermediation best paper award, and the ECB Lamfalussy Research Fellowship. Professor Giannetti has been serving as associate editor of many journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Finance, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Money Credit and Banking, the Journal of Corporate Finance, Financial Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Financial Services Research, and the Journal of Financial Stability, and as a director of the European Finance Association, the Financial Intermediation Research Society, and the Financial Management Association. She is also an advisory board member of the Academic Female Finance Committee (AFFECT) of the American Finance Association and a frequent advisor, visitor, and speaker at central banks worldwide. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and earned her B.A. and M.Sc. from Bocconi University (Italy).