Conference Organizers
Prof. Dr. Dr. Sabine Meck
Holder of Chair in Financial Psychology, Sociology and Financial Ethics, SMI – School of Management and Innovation, Steinbeis University Berlin
We are an interdisciplinary research chair at Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin in the still young and innovative field of financial psychology, sociology and ethics.
We do research and teach in a still young scientific field in Germany by interlinking economic, psychological and sociological findings in order to better understand the events taking place all over the financial markets as well as the rational and irrational human behaviour in terms of money and values.
We closely cooperate with financial service, real estate and pharmaceutical enterprises, other universities and institutes, supervise interdisciplinary research projects and doctorates, teach in the field of financial and economic ethics and offer numerous seminars and workshops combining theory and practice.
In addition, our special focus is on project implementation and support with regard to the human rights issue (presently, the issue of coming to terms with the GDR past and forced labourers).
Prof. Dr. Frank E. Zschaler
Professor of Economic and Social History at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
The Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt was founded in 1972 as an ecclesiastical comprehensive university under the auspices of an ecclesiastical foundation under public law and enhanced to university status in 1980.
The university is committed both to academic and catholic traditions. Here, the research results and everyday activities are especially scrutinized in a critical manner. Thus e.g., economic and entrepreneurial ethics or journalistic ethics are component parts of the respective subjects of study. In addition, cooperation between the disciplines of study as well as openness, also marking the dialogue with other religions, are of special importance. Our university endeavours to be an academic community that imparts both expert knowledge and social competence in equal measure.
In the fields of research and teaching, the economic and social history deals, in particular, with the history of public finances, above all, taxation in the 19th and 20th centuries, business history, history of science, education and universities, with the focus on economics, the history of social ethics and social policy as well as investigations on historic transformation and modernization processes.
Prof. Dr. Jens Kleine
Holder of Chair in Business Management and Financial Services of Steinbeis University Berlin
The focus of research of Professor Jens Kleine and his team of scientific assistants and staff members is on the financial service sector and, in particular, on banking, insurance and asset management. They direct their main attention to the fields of strategic management, asset management and risk management, marketing, innovation and sales management.
In order to ensure a high degree of practice orientation, their research work is often done in cooperation with the financial services industry. Here, their primary concern is the cooperation with banks, investment companies and insurance companies.
Dr. Christoph Weber Berg
Christoph Weber Berg studied theology at the Zurich University. In addition, he worked in the banking sector, i.a. as a loan-handling bank official with Credit Suisse.
After taking his final degree, he took up an employment as a priest at Reformierte Landeskirche (reformed national church) and wrote his doctoral theses on economic ethics. He set up the specialist department of economic ethics for Reformierte Landeskirche in the canton of Zurich. He obtained his Executive MBA in Nonprofit Management at Freiburg University. At the universities in Zurich, Basel and Lucerne, he committed himself to setting up and expanding the Centre of Religion, Economics and Politics (Zentrum für Religion, Wirtschaft und Politik / ZRWP).
Before being appointed head of the Center for CSR at HWZ, Christoph Weber-Berg headed the sustainability research at Forma Futura Invest AG in Zurich.
The University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration in Zurich is a member of Züricher Fachhochschule. It was founded in 1986 as the extra-occupational HWV Zurich by KV-Schweiz and the Juventus-Schulen Zurich foundation. With its more than 1800 students and about 300 lecturers, HWZ is the largest among extra-occupational universities of economics in Switzerland.
Sustainable and Responsible Finance
Prof Dr. Frits van Engeldorp Gastelaars
RSM - Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus Universität Rotterdam
Just like our host country, one of the world's renowned international trading nations, RSM has continued to expand and internationalise, cementing its status as one of Europe's most international and innovative business schools.
RSM offers a distinctive intellectual culture. We believe leadership can be taught through a combination of intellectual and practical challenge. We believe that the difficulties encountered working in diverse teams fosters creative new approaches in business. We enjoy a reciprocal, supportive relationship with multinational companies. And we encourage a flexible, broad and sometimes iconoclastic mindset in matters of business practice and research. This distinct approach has helped RSM to establish a portfolio of top-ranked programmes, as well as one of the world's largest and most prolific management faculties.
DGFFF
Deutsche Gesellschaft für finanzpsycholgische und finanzethische Forschung e.V. (DGFFF) (German Association of Financial Psychology and Financial Ethics Research)
(registered association)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für finanzpsycholgische und finanzethische Forschung e.V. (DGFFF), based in Berlin, is a non-profit institution, whose goal is to promote science and research in the fields of financial psychology, sociology and ethics, but also in other specialist fields. Please find its articles of association here The association‘s articles of association are found here.
If you wish to join the association, please send a short mail to 
s.meck(at)dgfff.de