I believe in balanced excellence. I am convinced that engaging in research, teaching and outreach activities is necessary not only to enhance the quality in each of these activities but also to promote a continuous development and reflection on how you conduct research, how you teach and how you collaborate/interact with external stakeholders. These activities should not be carried out in isolation from each other. My philosophy is that they prosper when properly mixed. Below, you will receive an overview of my research, teaching, and outreach activities. If you are interested in learning more please send an email.

I have worked as a researcher in the field of business administration for more than two decades. My research interests are centred around the ongoing sustainability transformation of organisations, both public and private, and the role of language, comprehension, sustainability accounting and reporting, sustainable finance and transition finance to promote organisational change of transformational character. The need for systemic change and rethinking the role of business organisations and financial institutions are relevant themes in my research.

My research focuses on the integration of sustainability consideration into financial decision making in the nexus of the financial system, industry, and policy making. Specifically, how firms and financial institutions integrate sustainability into their accounting and reporting practices, risk management processes, business strategies, and governance structures as well as the potential of the financial system to act as a driver for sustainable development. Thus, I study these integration processes and how organisations adapt to external forces and pressure related to climate change and biodiversity loss by examining their financial decision making, accounting and reporting practices, and risk management process. I have focused on organisational and systemic change from the perspectives of financial drivers, as well as environmental and sustainability accounting and reporting practices as driving tools for organisational change.

Part of my research has studied how the financial system promotes the ongoing sustainability transformation and how successful upcoming and newly launched public policies, i.e., the EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and private initiatives, i.e., the Taskforce for Climate related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) and Task force on Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD) are in promoting the sustainability transformation of organisations and in redirecting and accelerating financial flows towards sustainable investments. Part of my research agenda is motivated by the recent policy developments, related to transition finance, where, mapping, accounting and reporting practices are increasingly used as tools to achieve organisational transformations.

In my research, I adopt and combine qualitative and quantitative research methods as well as approach research questions from a combination of policy-, organisational-, industry- and financial market perspectives. My research is interpretative and include critical perspectives. My research profile is highly inter- and intradisciplinary. I enjoy collaborating with researchers from various disciplines and thrive in building strong research environments and initiate and lead interdisciplinary projects combining young scholars and senior researchers in competent, constructive, and energetic teams. My research network includes both international and national colleagues from, for example, Lancaster University, Oxford University, Macquarie University, Bamberg University, Copenhagen Business School, and Gothenburg University.

I have the privilege to lead several successful research programmes and projects. Recently I received MSEK 50 in funding from Mistra (+MSEK 50 in-kind) to run Mistra BIOPATH, which is an international research programme aimed at integrating biodiversity considerations into the very core of organiaational practices – decision-making. I am also the lead PI and director of the interdisciplinary research center Sparbanken Skånes Center for Sustainabile Enterprising – SSCEN (MSEK 25 in donation from Sparbanken Skånes Ägarstiftelse Finn). In 2024, I received funding from Alfa Laval AB (MSEK 7) to explore The role of sustainability reporting in business transformation and with funding from the Kamprad Family Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Research & Charity (MSEK 18) I analyse Business transformation in SMEs with a entrepreneurship-oriented focus  (Hållbar näringslivsutveckling av små och medelstora företag med framtidens entreprenörer i centrum). I publish in impactful journals, including Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal of Business Ethics, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy, and Research Policy.

Mistra BIOPATH
Sparbanken Skåne Centre for Sustainable Enterprising (SSCEN)

I love to teach and to interact with students in the classroom. To me it is important to stay curious and continuously develop my pedagogical experience by engaging in pedagogical training activities, as well as in the pedagogical debate and at pedagogical conferences. I like to try out and mix different teaching methods like flipped classroom, blended teaching and case methodology, as well as organising hackathons where my students can solve real challenges and assist business society with new perspectives in tackling hurdles in the ongoing sustainability transition.

My teaching is deeply research oriented and focuses on accounting and corporate finance, and more specifically on different topics related to sustainability accounting and reporting, business transformation, and sustainable/transition finance. As mentioned above, my research focuses on the integration of sustainability consideration into financial decision making in the nexus of the financial system, industry, and policy making. Thus, I teach on how private and public organisations adapt to external forces and pressure related to climate change and biodiversity loss by examining their financial decision making, accounting and reporting practices, risk management process, and business transformation.

Although, I primarily teach in business administration, I am also actively engaged in teaching at, for example, the faculty of engineering (LTH), service management and LUCSUS at Lund University.  I also have experience from teaching outside Sweden. My teaching experience ranges from first to third cycle studies and involves both developing and leading courses and programmes within accounting, corporate finance, and sustainability. Recently, I have developed the new course FEKD52 Sustainability reporting, transition finance, and business transformation, as well as Building for Biodiversity (B4B) a series of thematical interdisciplinary seminars aimed for PhD candidates and post-docs.

I have extensive experience of supervising on first, second and third cycle level, as well as being mentor for post docs and in mentorship programmes directed to young scholars that recently have defended their dissertation. At the moment, I am main supervisor for two PhD candidates (with the projects Sustainability reporting and business transformation and Perspectives on environmental materiality) and two post-docs (with the projects Strategic perspectives on business transformation and Embedding sustainability reporting within management control systems for strategic change) active at Lunds University. I am aslo co-supervisor of a PhD project on The role of managerial cognition in business sustainability and sustainable transition.

I also have teaching experience from outside the academia. I am regularly involved in executive education and life-long learning initiatives. I capacity build representatives from policy, industry, and the financial system through various teaching activities and management leadership programs in modules related to accounting, corporate finance, climate change, biodiversity loss, sustainability transformation and management/strategy. At the moment, I am developing a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Integrating biodiversity considerations into financial decision making. The MOOC is tailormade for decision makers in policy, industry, and the financial system.

My teaching has been awarded with both The Pedagogical Price of the Student Union at Lund University and The Pedagogical Price of The Student Union for Economics and Business Students at Lund University.

To me it is important to take an active role in interacting with various stakeholders at different levels of society. I believe that I as a researcher have a responsibility to safeguard that key findings and innovations originated from academia are shared in the best possible way to relevant decision makers that can implement these findings and innovations in their different contexts. During my research career, I have engaged in curious and constructive discussions, collaborations, and co-creation processes with representatives from policy, industry, and the financial system. I believe that these interactions not only increase the likelihood that important decisions outside the academia are evidence based but also promote the identification and formulation of relevant research questions, as well as real-world cases applicable to be explored further in the classroom where tomorrow’s change agents are shaped.

During the years, I have initiated and lead many research programs and outreach initiatives that include collaboration, knowledge sharing, and co-creation with high-profile partners. Some key examples include EVRACSI, Mistra BIOPATH, SSCEN, LISI (Lund Institute for Sustainability Impact), the Swedish Corporate Sustainability Ranking (Hållbara bolag), and the SUBREA conference. These projects involve close collaboration with representatives from public authorities, firms, financial institutions, and NGOs including Swedish and EU government ministries and agencies (Swedish Ministry of Finance, Swedish Tax Agency, European Environmental Agency (EEA), EFRAG, Swedish pension funds (AP2, AP7)), and leading firms across industry (Alfa Laval, Vattenfall, Orkla, EON, Stora Enso, Kraftringen, OX2) and the financial system (European Investment Bank, SHB, Swedbank, SEB, SEK, TCFD, TNFD). These collaborative platforms are explicitly designed to address organisational and systemic change processes required for the sustainability transformation, thereby facilitating the co-creation and translation of academic knowledge into policy-relevant and decision-ready insights, as well as contributing to evidence-based transformation processes beyond academia.

Acting as expert within one’s research areas are important outreach assignments for a researcher. I am grateful for being appointed as expert in various situations. Some examples of these assignments include: In 2020-2021, I acted as expert in the National Audit Office’s (NAO, Riksrevisionen) audit of The Swedish National Pension Funds’ sustainability work(AP-fondernas hållbarhetsarbete – investeringar och ägarstyrning) (RiR 2021:18). I was also expert in the NAO’s audit of The Swedish Government’s governance towards sustainable operations in state owned organisations. Since 2024, I act as expert of sustainability reporting at the Swedish Inspectorate of Auditors (Revisorsinspektionen). I am a member of the Scientific Advisory Board at Eastern Finland University. Since 2025, I am one of the researchers in the U21 Nature Positive Coalition that is a project determine whether the proposed ‘State of Nature’ Metrics are practical to implement and lead to equitable socio-economic and environmental outcomes The U21 Nature Positive Coalition is designed to provide scientifically robust research onthe utility of these metrics and identify ways to avoid the pitfalls of the carbon market. Since 2017, I am chairperson and lead The Swedish Corporate Sustainability Ranking (Hållbara bolag) with Dagens Industry and Aktuell Hållbarhet. In 2025, I was appointed by the Swedish Government as one of the members of the Swedish delegation to the 12th Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science‑Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES‑12) in Manchester, 2026.. During 2023-24, I acted as Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Business and Biodiversity Assessment.

I regularly participate in different types of public engagements where I get the opportunity to meet and dicuss topical issues with different stakeholders. These engagements, include seminars (EEA/EEA, IPBES, EU Days Lund), workshops (Sydsvenska Industri och Handelskammaren), panels (COP 15, Nätverket för Europaforskning), conferences (Hållbart Näringsliv, Hållbara Finanser, Swedish Biodiversity Symposium), media presence (Dagens Industri, Sydsvenskan, Aktuell Hållbarhet, Dagens Nyheter, Vetenskapsradion, SVT Ekonomibyrån, TV4), and popular-science communication (The Conversation). These activities are strategically aligned with my research agenda and serve to disseminate new scientific insights, inform public debate, and strengthen the societal relevance of academic research.