The 2026 International Conference on Sustainability, Environment, and Social Transition in Economics and Finance (SESTEF 2026) jointly organized by the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, IPAG Business School, University of Montenegro & University of Ottawa with the support of  Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne and WinVeston Capital (Saudi Arabia),  will take place will take place both IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL on December 16–18, 2026 at Univerity of Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne. The event aims to provide academics, policymakers, and practitioners with a valuable forum for discussion and critical analysis of the major issues and challenges that interrelate energy, environment, sustainability, social transition, economics and finance.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Anna Creti

Anna Creti is Full Professor at Université Paris Dauphine, Paris; Director of the Climate Economics Chair (Un. Dauphine) and the Economics of Gas Chair (U Dauphine, Toulouse School of Economics, IFPEN, Ecole des Mines). She is Research Fellow, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris and external Affiliate, Siebel Institute, Berkeley. Anna holds a PhD from the Toulouse School of Economics and a post-doc from the London School of Economics. She has extensively studied competition and regulation of network utilities (telecommunications, baks, gas, electricity...), as well as the link between energy, climate and environmental regulation. Co-editor of the journal Energy Economics, Anna has numerous publications in top economic reviews and she also intervenes in several medias

Olivier Scaillet

Prof Olivier Scaillet is Belgo-Swiss and a professor of finance and statistics at the Geneva Finance Research Institute of the University of Geneva, and holds a senior chair at the Swiss Finance Institute. His research expertise lies in derivatives pricing, econometric theory, and econometrics applied to finance and insurance. He has published several papers in top journals in econometrics and finance, and co-authored a book on financial econometrics. He has been one of the winners of the bi-annual award for the best paper published in the Journal of Empirical Finance on the topic of quantitative risk management, as well as the Banque Privée Espirito Santo award on the topic of mutual fund performance. He is an elected fellow of SoFiE (Society for Financial Econometrics) and IAAE (International Association for Applied Econometrics). He serves as an associate editor for several leading academic journals in econometrics, statistics, banking, and finance. He is also an advisor to research teams in the finance and banking industry.