El Shaarani Centre for Ethical Finance, Accountability and Governance (EEFAG) Symposium

Programme

30th June 2025

9:00: Keynote address

Professor Tan Hu, Editor in Chief: Accounting, Organizations and Society, NTU, Singapore

Professor Jonathan A. Batten Editor in Chief: Finance Research Letters, RMIT, Australia

10:30: Coffee Break

11:00: Session 1: AI Powered Tools for Sustainability and Accountability

Chair: Prof S. Leventis

Ciftci, N., Nature Reporting: Evidence from Nature-related Financial Disclosures

Harris, T., AI-Powered Integrated Tool for Assessing Sustainability Reporting in the World 50 Most Impactful Universities 

Gad, M., When Methods Matter: How Implementation Choices Shape Topic Discovery in Financial Text

12:00: Session 2: Environmental Economics

Chair: Prof G. Sorwar

Slechten, A., Market Design for the Environment 

Zhang, C., Internal Carbon Price and Firm Performance

13:00: Lunch 

14:00: Session 3: Does Alternative Financial Data have Value?

Chair Prof Jonathan Batten

Asaad, A., Beyond Short Interest: Untapped Potential with Fundamentals in European Markets

Essananni, Y., The diversification benefit of commodities from the perspective of a religio-sustainable investor: A unifying framework

Elkomy, S., Cultural Diversity in Senior Management and its Impact on  The Case of the GCC Banks

15:30: Coffee Break

16:30: Session 4: Sustainability in Practice Session

Professor Deimante Vasiliauskaite, Chief Research Scientist (Vilnius University, Business School) Senior analyst at Bank of Lithuania

Fayoumi, A., Architecting Smart Mobility: Sustainable Urban Transportation in the Age of AI 

1st July 2025

8:30: Session 5: AI and Climate Risk

Chen, E., Walking the Talk or Playing the Game? How Corporate Culture Shapes Climate Change Performance

Carvalho, F., From Climate to Economy: Understanding Climate Risks in the U.S. Market

Bouabid, N., Not All Green is Equal: The Financial Benefit of Doing ‘More Good’ Over Doing ‘Less Harm’ to the Environment

Noureldeen, E., Using Machine Learning to Quantify Auditor Culture

12:30: Editors Roundtable Discussion and Reflections

13:30: Lunch and Closing Remarks