Professor Marleen Janssen Groesbeek

Marleen Janssen Groesbeek is a Sustainable Finance and Accounting professor at Avans University of Applied Sciences in Breda, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on multiple value creation, new forms of finance and accounting (carbon, circular, impact) and governance. The governance research focuses on how executives, directors, finance, and accounting professionals can improve their knowledge of non-financial opportunities and risks.

In her inaugural speech, she contemplated a more activistic approach for stakeholders to pressure the current economic and financial approach of short-termism and depletion of natural resources. Her research received grants from the INTERREG 2 SEAS fund for the Smart Lighting Project (SLIC) and the Erasmus+ program for a research project for Integrated Sustainable Accounting Education (INTEGRES).

For 20 years, she was a financial journalist at the Dutch financial newspaper. After that, she was a policy advisor responsible for Dutch institutional investors’ responsible and sustainable investments. And she was a sustainability manager at the Dutch-listed chemical company DSM-Firmenich.

She has published several books on sustainable business, leadership and creativity. She is a member of the Dutch Sustainable Finance Lab (SFL) and the Dutch researcher's platform, Het Groene Brein (the Green Brain). She is on the board of directors of the European Association of Investors, on the Advisory Board of ASN Bank, executive search company Sustainable Talent and the Future Food Fund II.