A Financial Handbook for Sustainability

In the thirteenth public lecture of this series, Professor Shivaram Rajgopal, Roy Bernard Kester and T.W. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing, Columbia University will deliver the lecture titled, "A Financial Handbook for Sustainability"

This lecture will be moderated by Eric Lim, Chief Sustainability Officer, United Overseas Bank.

Many boards and executive teams today are experiencing ESG fatigue, often struggling to see how sustainability initiatives translate into shareholder value. Yet sustainability is not just a compliance exercise—it has direct implications for firm value, risk management, and long-term business performance. While integrated reporting was created to bridge this gap, many reports still fall short, presenting sustainability metrics that are disconnected from financial outcomes.

In this session, participants will be introduced to a practical framework that links sustainability performance directly to company risk factors and financial statement line items. This enables organisations to better quantify the financial impact of sustainability-related decisions. Participants will also learn how to develop actionable KPIs that connect sustainability performance to measurable business value. In addition, the session will showcase AI-powered tools and prompts that can automate this analysis at scale, helping organisations accelerate the adoption of value-driven sustainability reporting and more informed decision-making.

This is a hybrid lecture held both in-person and over Zoom.

📆 Conference details: 
Lecture date and time: Tuesday, 11 August 2026 | 10:00am – 11:30am SGT (4:00am – 5:30am CEST)
 

📍Conference location: 
Wee Cho Yaw Plaza Auditorium, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore | Zoom

The NBS-PRI-ECGI Public Lecture Series is a global joint initiative between Nanyang Business School (NBS), Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) to facilitate the knowledge exchanges between academics, practitioners, and policymakers in sustainable business.  

The series provides monthly in-person or online public lectures. Each lecture will feature a leading academic to present cutting-edge research of a specific topic, and an industry expert to moderate the session, sharing insights from the field and also tailoring audience questions in a way to better enable bridging the gap between research and practice.