Jörg Rocholl

Jörg Rocholl has been the president of ESMT since July 2011 and the Deutsche Bank professor in sustainable finance since September 2022. He is chair of the advisory board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance and chair of the steering committee of the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM). Furthermore, he is a member of the supervisory board at RWE AG, a member of the board of the Schmalenbach Society, a member of acatech (German Academy of Science and Engineering), a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).

Rocholl joined ESMT in July 2007 as an associate professor and became full professor in July 2010. In September 2010, he was appointed the associate dean of faculty and, in April 2011, dean of faculty. Rocholl holds a PhD in finance and economics and an MPhil from Columbia Business School as well as a “Diplom-Ökonom mit Auszeichnung” (economics degree with distinction) from Witten/Herdecke University in Germany.

As a researcher, Rocholl’s interests are in sustainable finance, corporate finance, corporate governance, financial intermediation, and central banking. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. It has also been reported in leading international media such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Financial Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Handelsblatt, and Börsen-Zeitung. He appears regularly as an expert on ARD, ZDF, Bloomberg TV, and Deutsche Welle.

Rocholl is a research professor at the Ifo Institute in Munich, the vice chair of the economic advisory board of Deutsche Welle, a council member of the Virchow Foundation for Global Health, a member of the sustainability advisory council of Deutsche Post DHL Group, and a board member of the Public Governance Institute Germany. He worked with Boston Consulting Group in Frankfurt and London and Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and New York. He has been a visiting researcher at the Bundesbank Research Center in Frankfurt and was granted the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award as well as the Lamfalussy Fellowship and the Duisenberg Fellowship from the European Central Bank (ECB). Rocholl has received several research grants from Columbia Business School, Kenan-Flagler Business School, and the FDIC. His teaching has been recognized with the Weatherspoon Teaching Award at Kenan-Flagler Business School and several ESMT Best Teacher Awards.