International Conference on Business Ethics – 28/29 May 2026

Keynote speakers

• Chiara ZILIOLI, ECB Director General (Law and Economics). Professor Chiara Zilioli has devoted her career to European institutions, joining the Council of Ministers’ Legal Service in 1989, moving to the European Monetary Institute in 1995, and then to the European Central Bank in 1998. She has served as Director General of Legal Services at the ECB since 2013, leading a team of around 130 lawyers.  She holds an LL.M. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the European University Institute. Appointed honorary professor of law in 2016 at Goethe University Frankfurt, she lectures in Frankfurt and Parma, and has authored numerous articles and four books.

• Emmanuel DUPIC, Group Head of Ethics and Compliance DASSAULT AVIATION. Emmanuel Dupic, a graduate of France’s National School for the Judiciary, served 17 years as a public prosecutor, rising through the ranks. He later worked as a legal advisor at the Ministry of Justice and the National Gendarmerie, and as Public Prosecutor of Haute-Saône, before joining Dassault Aviation in 2021. He oversees compliance matters (including anti-corruption, duty of care, data protection, whistleblowing, export control, and criminal litigation). A lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, he is the author of several books on compliance and serves as President of the Ethics Committee of the French Aerospace Industries Association and as a board member of the International Forum on Business Ethical Conduct.

• Alexandre KATEB, CFA Institute – Economist and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) & founder and chairman of The Multipolarity Report. Alexandre Kateb is the founder of Multipolarity AI, an artificial intelligence–based platform for analyzing macroeconomic, financial, and geopolitical risks. He advises governments, financial institutions, and multinational companies on strategy, risk anticipation, and risk management, with clients including states, investment funds, international organizations, and industrial groups.

• Grégory SCHNEIDER-MAUNOURY, Responsible Finance Expert, Associate Professor at Sorbonne Paris Nord University – FIR. Grégory Schneider-Maunoury is an expert in sustainable finance, impact investing, and corporate sustainability strategy, with over twenty years of professional and academic experience. He holds a Ph.D. in Management Science and specializes in environmental regulation and corporate strategy, with extensive training in the analysis of climate transition plans and sustainable finance auditing.

Moderators

• Joseph SARKIS, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA). Joseph Sarkis is a Professor of Management within Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Business School. His teaching and research interests are in the fields of environmental sustainability, operations and supply chain management. He is the author or co-author of over 600 publications. His research is widely cited and he earned the designation of highly cited researcher for nine years from 2016-2025 from Thomson-Reuters/Clarivate Analytics (Web-of-Science). He has also been noted as the most productive researcher in the field of supply chain management from the years 1995-2015.

• Richard ALEXANDER, SOAS University – Senior Lecturer in Financial Law (UK). Dr. Richard Alexander is Senior Lecturer in Financial Law at SOAS, University of London and was formerly an Expert for GIABA and Visiting Professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing. His areas of interest are financial law, business law and the measures taken to combat economic and financial crime.

• Hong BO, Axa Chair in Global Finance and Director of SOAS Center for Global Finance (UK). Professor Bo received her degrees in Economics from Lanzhou University of China (BA), Renmin University of China (MSc), London School of Economics and Political Science, UK (MSc.), and University of Groningen, the Netherlands (PhD). Her research interests cover topics in financial economics, including firm investment decisions under uncertainty, capital market imperfections, comparative financial systems, corporate finance, corporate governance, the Chinese economy, and China’s state-financed overseas infrastructure investment across the globe. She has published in internationally well-recognized academic journals, including Review of Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, British Journal of Management, Regional Studies, Journal of Banking and Finance, Economica, European Journal of Finance, The British Accounting Review, and International Review of Financial Analysis.

• Sandra KENDO, Head of Chair Business Ethics and Associate Professor of Monetary Economics and Banking, FGES-ICL (France). Sandra Kendo is an Associate Professor of Monetary Economics and Banking at the Catholic University of Lille, where she also holds the Chair in Business Ethics, with a focus on compliance, ESG, and non-financial reporting. Her research interests include financial stability, systemic risk, banking competition, and the integration of ESG criteria within financial institutions. Since January 2023, she has been leading a funded applied research project (2023–2026) aimed at developing a composite index combining financial and non-financial indicators to assess SMEs’ engagement in ESG practices, based on original survey data. This project is supported by the Catholic University of Lille and funded by the Hauts-de-France Regional Council.

Experts

• Daniel SEGOIN, ECB – Senior Legal Counsel. Daniel Segoin is currently working as a Senior Legal Counsel in the Legal Service of the European Central Bank, representing the ECB before EU Courts and providing advice on various kinds of EU and international matters related to banking and prudential regulation. Previously he worked in the Legal Service of the French Ministry for Foreign affairs as a legal counsel representing the French government before the CJEU and arbitration courts on matters related to Trade and the Eurozone. He is a lecturer at the University of Strasbourg on the law of the Economic and Monetary Union.

• Sophie MECHIN, CFA Institute – Director, Impact Investing. Sophie is one of three fund managers dedicated to private equity with Private Debt and Real Assets (PDRA) at BNP Paribas Asset Management which she joined in 2020. She has nine years of experience in impact funds selection, predominantly in private equity. After working for six years for the McConnell Foundation – a Canadian private family foundation – she joined the Canadian federal government’s blended finance international development programme for a year and a half. Previously, she worked in the social innovation and social finance sector for four years in Canada and in Thailand. She started her career in 2006 as a financial controller and internal auditor for Edenred Spain, former Accors Services, where she spent four years. Sophie holds a master’s from ESC Rennes School of Business and is a CFA Charterholder.

• Michael LAUNAY, Industry Practitioner – Engineer, Senior Software Architect, Complex Project Management. Michaël Launay is a senior software architect, entrepreneur, and professor with over 25 years of experience in software engineering. He helps organizations design complex systems, often leading projects that require deep technical and architectural expertise. Passionate about evolving practices, he actively integrates AI into his freelance work and personal projects, focusing on its role in software development, modeling, and production. He also teaches students how to apply AI critically and effectively in IT projects, emphasizing quality, traceability, and tool understanding.

• Tom LITTLECHILD, Lead counsel, Wells Fargo. Tom Littlechild is Wells Fargo’s international lead counsel for financial crimes. He advises primarily on the laws governing financial and trade sanctions, anti-money laundering, anti-bribery and corruption, as well as investigations, compliance, market abuse, ethics and regulatory matters. He also regularly lectures at universities and speaks at industry conferences on these topics. Tom was previously Santander UK’s dedicated financial crime lawyer and, prior to that, a senior associate at Ropes and Gray specialising in white-collar crime, investigations and compliance. Before Ropes, he spent more than four years as an associate at white-collar crime boutique Byrne and Partners, having originally trained and qualified with Allen & Overy.

• Laurène CHENEVAT, Sustainable Finance Policy and Regulation leader at Natixis CIB – FIR. Laurene Chevenat has been part of Natixis’ CIB Green Hub team since 2022, where she leads the sustainable finance regulation advisory and intelligence function for clients. Previously, she spent 6 years at Mirova, coordinating the asset manager’s policy and advocacy work to support the development of the EU sustainable finance regulatory package. With over 15 years of experience in sustainability, she has worked for both private companies like Veolia and various public organizations.

• Jean–Philippe DESMARTIN, FIR Expert: Director of Responsible Investment at Edmond de Rothschild AM. Jean-Philippe Desmartin has been the Director of Responsible Investment at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management since 2016. Previously, from 2005 to 2016, he led ESG Research at Oddo Securities. He holds degrees in business law and management from the University of Paris II and in political science from IEP Paris. Over the past 25 years, he has been involved in numerous working groups advancing sustainability issues in France (AFG, FIR), Europe (EFFAS, WICI Europe), and globally (PRI). He has co-authored several books on Responsible Investment and co-founded the FIR-PRI European Prize in 2005. His ESG practices were featured in a Harvard Business School « Business Case » study in 2011.

• Jean-François BOUILLY, CFA Institute Charterholder – Chief Compliance Officer and General Secretary, Sanso Longchamp Asset Management. Jean-François Bouilly is specialized in Asian markets; he later became a strategist at Crédit Lyonnais Asset Management (now Amundi). He is the Founder and President of Latitude Capital Management, an entrepreneurial asset management firm. A Chartered Financial Analyst since 2000, he is also a former president of CFA Society France.

• Nick ANDREWS, Co-Founder at Strata Global Limited. Long on the risk side in the financial services sector, where appropriate governance is key, Nick has founded and run his own businesses and been on various Boards including a major investment bank, two crypto currency firms, a payments firm and others. Currently Co-founder/part owner/Director of an FCA regulated investment firm specialising in innovation in the digital, natural capital, commodities and fintech sectors.

• David BAEZ, ECB – Principal Legal Counsel. David Baez Seara is a Principal Legal Counsel at the ECB’s Legal Services.  Before joining the ECB’s Legal Services, he worked at the European Commission. He holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute in Florence, LLM degrees from the King’s College London and the Université Saint-Louis in Brussels and a degree in Law from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid.  His recent publications include an analysis of the principle of financial independence and its implications for euro area central banks and an assessment of the compatibility of the Spanish windfall levy on credit institutions with EU law.

• Michel SANCES, Visiting Professor of EU Competition Law and Digital Law at Université Catholique de Lille. Michel Sances is Ph.D. in Economics and Digital Society Law, awarded with the highest honours. His doctoral research focused on corporate sustainability in the banking sector. He has authored several publications and published in both national and international journals. He currently is Professor of Competition Law, Digital Law, Business Law, as well as Public Management, Management and Accounting.

• Frank BETZ, Senior Economist at European Investment Bank. Frank Betz is a senior economist in the Country and Financial Sector Analysis Division in the Economics Department of the European Investment Bank (EIB). He joined the EIB in 2012, after three years at the European Central Bank (ECB). Frank holds a PhD from the European University Institute (EIU).

• Pr. Joseph SARKIS, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA)
• Emmanuel DUPIC, Group Head of Ethics and Compliance DASSAULT AVIATION