Yrjo Koskinen

Yrjö Koskinen is the BMO Professor of Sustainable and Transition Finance at the Haskayne School of Business. He served as the Associate Dean of Research and Business Impact from 2017 to 2022. Previously he has been on the faculties of Stockholm School of Economics, Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He holds an MSc degree in Economics from the University of Helsinki, and a PhD in Management (Finance) from INSEAD. Prior to his academic career, Koskinen worked as a financial journalist and as an economist at the Bank of Finland. Koskinen currently serves on the advisory board of the Institute of Sustainable Finance at Queen’s University and the steering committee for the Canadian Sustainable Finance Network. He is also a fellow at the Nordic Initiative in Corporate Economics and a research member at the European Corporate Governance Institute. He is the past co-president of the Northern Finance Association. Koskinen’s main research areas are sustainable finance, and corporate finance and governance, His current research focuses on corporate social responsibility and its relationship to firm risk, and the effects of limited liability on corporations. His research has been published in the leading finance and management journals, such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Review of Finance. He is the recipient of the Standard Life Investments Finance Prize for his research on corporate social responsibility and firm risk.