Biography
Let’s make value visible
Prof. Dr. Willem Schramade is Professor of Finance at Nyenrode Business University. He is part of Nyenrode's Faculty Centre for Corporate Reporting, Finance & Tax. His main research topics are Sustainable Finance & Sustainable Investing. Schramade is proud of completing a sustainability integrated corporate finance textbook that gives practitioners the tools to apply sustainable finance in numbers. He is energized by working with enthusiastic and creative people, together finding solutions to complex challenges.
Schramade aims to give leaders the tools that help them make investment and financing decisions for better long-term outcomes; and enable them to be good stewards of their organizations.
Schramade received a Master’s of Science in Business Economics (specialization Corporate Finance) from the Tilburg University (2000) and obtained his PhD at the Erasmus University (2006). His dissertation was titled 'Corporate Bond Issuers'.
He has worked within Finance for over 20 years, giving him extensive experience in advising national and international clients on Finance and ESG. Among others, Schamade was equity analyst for Robeco and worked as portfolio manager impact investing for NN Investment Partners (2016-2019). Also in 2022, he was appointed supervisory board member for Triodos Investment Management funds.
Schramade wrote several blogs on pension funds and on CFOs/CVOs.
Interests
He likes to do a lot of reading, cycling, hiking in the mountains and spending time with his family.
Most relevant publications
- Ondernemingsfinanciering: "Zet de samenleving weer centraal"
- Schoenmaker, D., & Schramade, W. (2024). Shareholder primacy or stakeholder governance? Finance Research Letters, forthcoming.
- Schoenmaker, D., & Schramade, W. (2024). Which discount rate for sustainability? The Journal of Sustainable Finance & Accounting, forthcoming.
- Schramade, W. (2025). Dissecting the container concept of ESG investing. The Journal of Impact & ESG Investing, forthcoming.
- de Adelhart Toorop, Reinier, Dirk Schoenmaker, and Willem Schramade. "Decision Rules for Corporate Investment." International Journal of Financial Studies 12, no. 1 (2024): 24
- Schoenmaker, D., & Schramade, W. (2023). Corporate Finance for Long-Term Value. Corporate Finance for Long-Term Value, Springer.
- Schoenmaker, D., Schramade, W., & Winter, J. W. Corporate governance beyond the shareholder and stakeholder model. Erasmus Law Review, Vol. 16, Issue 1, 2023
- Schoenmaker, D., & Schramade, W. (2018). Principles of sustainable finance. Oxford University Press.
- Kurznack, L., Schoenmaker, D., & Schramade, W. (2021). A model of long-term value creation. Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 1-19.
- Loorbach, D., Schoenmaker, D., & Schramade, W. (2020). Finance in transition: Principles for a positive finance future. Rotterdam: Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
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