Professor Kerstin LOPATTA
Professor of Financial Accounting, Auditing and Sustainability
University of Hamburg
Biography
Kerstin Lopatta is Chair Professor of Financial Accounting, Auditing and Sustainability at the University of Hamburg. She received her doctoral degree from Goethe University Frankfurt. 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 has extensive experience in sustainability reporting and financial accounting in practice and research. Before starting her scientific career she worked as an audit assistant for Deloitte. She is involved in developing, improving and implementing a variety of disclosure standards in different areas of sustainability reporting, e. g. she serves for the sustainable finance council of the German Ministry of Finance, she is a member of the Sustainability Reporting Technical Committee at the Accounting Standards Committee of Germany (ASCG) and she is the vice chair of the EFRAG Sustainability Reporting Board.
