Alumni Discussion Club event with Anete Pajuste: Climate Transition at a Crossroads — Risks and Opportunities for Firms

SSE Riga Rector Anders Paalzow invites all graduates to an on-site Alumni Discussion Club event featuring Anete Pajuste. The discussion will focus on one of the defining debates in global business: the future of ESG, climate transition, and capital markets.

Across the Atlantic, approaches to the green transition are diverging. Europe is pursuing a regulated, bank-driven path — with taxonomies, disclosure rules, and transition planning embedded in policy. The United States is taking a more investor- and market-driven route, now complicated by a growing political backlash against ESG and shareholder activism.

Anete Pajuste (Class of 1997) is a Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics (Riga). During the past four years she has been a Visiting Professor at Boston University Questrom School of Business (2023/2025) and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Program on Corporate Governance of Harvard Law School (2021/2023). She is also a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and a founder and board member of the Baltic Family Firm Institute (BFFI).

Event for SSE Riga Alumni only, registration is required.