Visiting Scholars Program
The Center for Responsible Business participates in the University’s campus-wide Visiting Scholar program. The Center will sponsor one visiting scholar of each academic year for the spring and fall semesters. For more information, please visit http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/haas/scholars/scholars.html.
If you’re interested in becoming a visiting scholar and want to find out more, contact Executive Director Jo Mackness.
Nadja Guenster, Visiting Researcher, Fall 2011
Nadja Guenster is an assistant professor of Finance at Maastricht University and a visiting scholar at the Haas-Center for Responsible Business at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on socially responsible investing, CSR, corporate governance, and asset price bubbles. Nadja obtained a Ph.D. from RSM Erasmus University. Her studies have been published in various practitioner-oriented outlets, such as the Financial Analysts Journal, European Financial Management and the Journal of Asset Management. Her research has been awarded the 2005 Moskowitz Prize for best quantitative study in the SRI domain, and the 2005 European Finance & Sustainability Research Award, and the 2011 Crowell Second Prize by PanAgora Asset Management.
Itziar Castelló, Visiting Researcher, Fall 2010
Itziar is an assistant professor at Copenhagen Business School. She is affiliated with cbsCSR and the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management and the Center for Corporate Social Responsibility.
Itziar´s research focus is on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and its relations with strategy, sustainability agenda setting, sensemaking and CSR and legitimacy processes.
Itziar participates in a number of international research projects and from 2010 she became a part of the project “Responsible Business in the Blogosphere” supported by the Strategic Research Council under the Danish Ministry of Science.
Previously, Itziar was a researcher at the Institute for Social Innovation at Esade Business School, and she worked for AccountAbility (United Kingdom) as a senior researcher where she was responsible for the Global Leadership Network project, a research program focusing on the strategic development of CSR in companies such as IBM, GE, 3M, FEDEC, etc. She was a coach for AA1000AS and was responsible for the development of stakeholder engagement tools. She has also worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as manager and in General Electric as project manager and Six Sigma Master Black Belt. She has carried out numerous consultancy and research projects on subjects such as strategic CSR, responsible consumption, corporate reporting, accountability mechanisms and assurance processes. Her published articles from her research at CRB are below:
