Céline Louche is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Waikato, specialising in interactions between business and society, covering topics such as

corporate responsibility Corporate responsibility is a term which has come to characterize a family of professional disciplines intended to help a corporation stay competitive by maintaining accountability to its four main stakeholder groups: customers, employees, shareh ...

sustainable development Sustainable development is an organizing principle for meeting human development goals while also sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services on which the economy and society depend. The des ...

, and responsible finance.

Academic career

Louche completed a

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titled ''Ethical investment: processes and mechanisms of institutionalisation in the Netherlands, 1990–2002'' at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Louche worked at Triodos Bank in The Netherlands, as a sustainability advisor, before entering academia. Louche was assistant professor of corporate responsibility at the

Vlerick Business School Vlerick Business School ("Vlerick") is a Belgian business school with campuses in Ghent, Leuven and Brussels. It is a result of a merger of the MBA programmes of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and of the ''Instituut Professor Vlerick voor ...

in Belgium, and associate professor at the Audencia Nantes School of Management in France. Louche joined the faculty of the School of Management and Marketing Operations at University of Waikato, rising to full professor. Louche researches topics like corporate responsibility, sustainable development, and responsible finance. Louche co-authored a book on dilemmas in responsible financing, which was published by Routledge in 2011 and reissued as an ebook in 2017. Louche is on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including ''

Business & Society ''Business & Society'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of business. The journal's editors-in-chief are Andrew Crane (University of Bath), Irene Henriques (York University), Bryan Husted (Tecnológico de Monterrey), and Fr ...

'', ''Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal'', ''M@n@gement'' and ''Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment'', '' Organization & Environment''. Louche was the jury chairwoman for the Forum pour l'Investissement Responsable (Sustainable Investment Forum) PIR Awards in 2023. Louche has had visiting fellowships at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

and University of California Berkeley.

Selected works

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References

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