Kerstin Lopatta

Chair, Sustainability Reporting Board at EFRAG

Speaker

Kerstin Lopatta is professor of Financial Accounting, Auditing and Sustainability at the University of Hamburg and adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance at the University of Luxembourg. Furthermore, she is affiliated with City University of Hong Kong as a visiting professor. She received her doctoral degree from Goethe University Frankfurt.

Kerstin Lopatta has extensive experience in sustainability reporting and financial accounting in practice and research. She is a member of the Sustainability Reporting Technical Committee of the ASCG and chairs the ASCG working group on Climate Reporting. Before embarking on her academic career, she worked as an audit assistant for Deloitte. She has been involved in developing, improving and implementing a variety of disclosure standards in different areas of sustainability reporting. For instance, she served as an academic observer on the Sustainable Finance Committee of the German Ministry of Finance and co-reviewed the adaptation of the German Sustainability Code to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the EU Taxonomy.

During her career Kerstin Lopatta completed several international research stays including at City University of Hong Kong, New York University’s Stern School of Business, and Copenhagen Business School. In her research, she investigates empirically the effects of environmental, social, and governance factors on business and society. She also covers corporate governance topics such as board structure and diversity. Kerstin Lopatta serves as a member of the supervisory board of HSBC Continental Europe, Freenet AG, and Eurokai GmbH & Co KG a. A.