Dr. Karen Wendt is the President of Sustainable Finance (Cham, Switzerland) and CEO of ECCOS Impact GmbH (Cham, Switzerland). She is also a serial entrepreneur, scientist and co-editor of the Sustainable Finance book series at Springer. She advises companies on sustainability and is proven expert in impact investing, international management, sustainable finance, and strategy development. She is currently conducting research on social entrepreneurship, stock exchanges and portfolio engineering.

Bernd Villhauer is Managing Director of the Global Ethics Institute (Tubingen, Germany) where he supports juries and research groups, financial managers and banks. He is also co-Founder of the Institut für Praxis der Philosophie eV in Darmstadt, Germany and Heads the Lab "Good Leadership" at the European School of Governance (Berlin, Germany). His work focuses on sustainable finance, monetary theory and financial ethics.