Rob Bauer is Professor of Finance (chair: Institutional Investors) and holder of the Elverding Chair on Sustainable Business, Culture and Corporate Regulation at Maastricht University School of Business and Economics in The Netherlands.

His academic research is focused on pension funds, strategic investment policy, sustainable finance, responsible investing, shareholder activism and corporate governance.

Rob is also Co-Founder and Director of the European Centre for Sustainable Finance (ECCE) at Maastricht University, Executive Director of the International Centre for Pension Management (ICPM) in Toronto, Co-founder of GRESB (real estate benchmarking company) and Co-Chair of the Global Research Alliance on Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI).