Isabelle Zheng Senior researcher Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich (UZH)

Isabelle Zheng is a senior researcher at the Department of Banking and Finance at the University of Zurich (UZH) following her PhD on climate and biodiversity financial risks.

She has co-developed a climate transition risk assessment tool for large portfolios of bonds, loans and equity shares which has then been applied by several regulators and policy makers (e.g., ECB, EIOPA, FINMA/SNB). She has also established several executive programs on the frontier topics of sustainable finance, ‘Climate Change Finance’ and ‘Biodiversity and Finance’ at UZH. She also holds an MA in VWL (Economics) from UZH after her bachelor from Fudan University in Shanghai. She aims to bring more inclusive discussion in sustainability via her research work and other activities outside academia.

Isabelle is an alumna of the Gen A Young Leadership Program of Asia Society Switzerland.