Yrjö Koskinen, PhD, ICD.D, is the BMO Professor of Sustainable and Transition Finance at the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business and Director of Research at Queen’s University’s Institute for Sustainable Finance. A pioneer and leading scholar in sustainable finance in Canada, he brings financial analysis to practical questions about how climate change and the energy transition affect companies, investors and financial markets.

As ISF Director of Research, Koskinen is a frequent panelist at industry conferences, where he discusses sustainable finance, climate risk and transition investment with business and finance leaders. He is also an economist and mentor with the Energy Stream at Creative Destruction Lab–Rockies, supporting entrepreneurs working on energy ventures.

Before entering academia, he worked as a financial journalist and as an economist and Head of the Securities Markets Office at the Bank of Finland. He is a past president of the Northern Finance Association and a frequent media contributor, with commentary appearing in CBC, The Globe and Mail, Financial Post, BNN Bloomberg, The Banker, The Conversation, Toronto Star and Calgary Herald. He holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Helsinki and a PhD in Management (Finance) from INSEAD.