Climate Risk and Finance

Meet our members

About the director

Erkan Yönder is an associate professor of finance and real estate in the Department of Finance. His research focuses on real estate finance, more specifically Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), commercial real estate, commercial mortgages, green buildings and climate finance.

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Impact lab members

Hussam Al Maleh

Al Maleh is a PhD candidate in the Department of Accountancy. A project manager by trade, he investigates how innovation and entrepreneurship are impacted by management control in the uncertain field of sustainability in business. His research portfolio includes the topics of sustainability disclosure and the application of ESG in performance evaluation. Hussam’s research methodology consists of qualitative analysis (interviews, documents, and observation) using social psychology as the basis for interpreting findings.

Nathan Cohen-Fournier

Cohen-Fournier is the co-founder of Estuaire, a worker cooperative providing consulting services in social finance and community economic development. He teaches a social finance course at Concordia University. His work focuses on aligning capital with social and environmental justice values. Previously, he held roles at Bombardier, Makivvik Corporation and Fondation Chagnon. Nathan holds a master’s degree in international business from Tufts University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Mina Mohebi

Mohebi is a PhD student in the John Molson School of Business, specializing in finance. She applies quantitative methods from electrical engineering background to analyze climate-related financial risks. Her research focuses on modeling market responses to climate events and developing data-driven strategies for risk mitigation and sustainable finance. By integrating engineering and finance, she advances tools that enhance financial sector resilience and support sustainable development within the climate risk and finance impact lab.

Mehmet Ozsoy

Ozsoy is an assistant professor in the Department of Finance. He earned his PhD from Duke University in 2013 and was a visiting scholar at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, during the 2018–2019 academic year. Ozsoy's research interests include financial economics, climate finance, and financial regulation. His work on correlation asymmetry received the Best Paper Award at the 2014 FMA European Conference.

Susan Bianca Pollock

Pollock is a PhD candidate in Finance. Her research focuses on corporate governance, incentive structures, and climate-related financial performance. She challenges the notion that ethical business conflicts with profitability, arguing that firms can perform strongly by aligning strategy with long-term environmental and societal goals.

Parianen Veeren

Veeren is an assistant professor in the Department of Finance. He joined the the department in 2018 while completing his PhD in Finance at the University of Alberta. He also holds a BComm and MSc, both in finance, from Concordia University. His research includes IPOs, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, intangible assets (organization capital, CSR/ESG, and climate issues in finance), governance and insider trading, among others. He has published work in the Journal of Corporate Finance, Applied Economics and Finance Research Letters.