Biodiversity Finance The Economic, Operational, and Societal Impacts of Biodiversity Loss

Thomas Walker is Professor of Finance, Director of the BMO Centre for Capital Markets, and Concordia University Research Chair in Emerging Risk Management at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Since 2025, he also directs the Institute for Sustainable Finance.

Helena Naffa is Associate Professor of Sustainable Finance at Corvinus University of Budapest. She founded and is the current head of the Sustainable Finance Research Centre at Corvinus that focuses on empirical research in the field of climate finance, ESG investing, and nature as an investment asset class.

Rajesh Kumar Tharumar holds an MSC degree in Finance from Concordia University. He has ample experience in the banking sector and currently serves as a research associate in the Department of Finance at Concordia University.

Simone Donders is a recent MA graduate from the Department of History at Concordia University, Montreal. She has a passion for sustainability studies and serves as both an editor and research associate in the Department of Finance at Concordia University.