Business Arena provides a platform for knowledge exchange, trend-spotting, and collaboration between the private and public sectors, while exploring visions for the cities and societies of the future.
Bringing Together Leaders from Academia and Industry
The roundtable gathered prominent representatives from both academia and the real estate sector:
- Lin Lerpold, Stockholm School of Economics
- Nickie Excellie, Alecta Fastigheter
- Anna Denell, Vasakronan
- Anna Marand, Hemsö
- Alice Bostedt, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
During the discussion, Lin Lerpold, vice director at Sustainable Finance Lab, presented her newly awarded research grant for the Center for Migration and Integration at SSE. Alice Bostedt shared insights from an ongoing sustainable finance research project at KTH, while Anna Denell, Anna Marand, and Nickie Excellie highlighted their current research and development initiatives.
Exploring Key Challenges and Opportunities
The dialogue spanned a wide range of pressing topics, including Sweden’s housing policy, integration, climate mitigation, and shared responsibilities within the built environment. A central question addressed was: Are we moving towards a more knowledge-intensive real estate industry?
Towards Integrated Research and Sustainable Development
The discussion underscored how business and research are increasingly converging around sustainability. A development that paves the way for stronger collaboration, deeper knowledge exchange and future research initiatives. This alignment is closely linked to Sustainable Finance Lab’s mission to advance truly integrated research.
Sustainable Finance Lab extends its sincere thanks to all contributors and to the audience for their thoughtful questions and valuable engagement.
