Date: 5th December 2025
Venue: LSE (map)
Organisers: Amil Dasgupta (London School of Economics), Tom Gosling (London School of Economics), Sir Oliver Hart (Harvard University) and Dirk Jenter (London School of Economics)
The 3rd Sir Oliver Hart Conference will focus on sustainable investing. It will explore what works in sustainable investing and what doesn’t. The agenda will encompass the key channels for impact – the cost of capital and direct engagement – as well as the political economy of sustainable investing. The conference will draw on input from both leading academics and top practitioners in the area.
Participation in the conference is by invitation only.
The Sir Oliver Hart Lecture Series and the associated Conference Series were set up in 2023 to honour the distinguished British-American economist and Nobel Laureate, Professor Sir Oliver Hart. The themes of the lectures and conferences aim to have policy relevance and connections to Professor Sir Oliver Hart’s own pioneering research. The series currently focuses on the area of sustainable corporate governance, i.e., on studying the role of companies in the economy and society, whether companies should focus solely on profits or attempt to reflect the non-financial preferences of their shareholders, and how such preferences can be reflected in corporate governance.
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