MSc Ecological and Impact Finance

Program Overview

Accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE) and recognised by the French Ministry of Higher Education, the Master of Science Ecological and Impact Finance offered by KEDGE Business School is designed for professionals seeking comprehensive expertise in sustainable, ecological and impact finance. Delivered entirely in English, this programme equips participants with advanced knowledge of sustainable finance tools, specialising in extra-financial analysis and international finance. Graduates emerge with a finely honed skillset that meets the growing demand from companies navigating ethical and societal considerations in their investment decisions and strategic planning.

KEDGE Business School’s Master of Science Ecological and Impact Finance is a double degree programme. It delivers a Master of Science accredited by the conférence des grandes écoles (CGE) and a diploma recognised by the French Ministry of Higher Education.

Program Outline

Programme highlights

SUPPORT ECOLOGICAL VALUES IN THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY

The financial industry has now integrated sustainability into his core, but too little corporations are really engaged, considering the sustainable finance gap to be filled for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Beyond learning how to tackle sustainable issues into financial systems, you will learn how to transform strategies, decisions and support companies to move towards impact assessment and measurement. You will receive learnings entirely dedicated to the ecological realities, in order manage better your future financial actions. The deepen ecological values transmitted by our staff and faculty will allow you to imagine the desirable realities you want to interact in, and to promote it.

A CUTTING-EDGE AND INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM

The values of our faculty, anchored into the ecological finance theory developed at KEDGE Business School, will allow to receive innovative learnings and experiences, integrating degrowth/postgrowth debates, and cutting-edge course and learnings as ecological accounting, sustainable monetary systems, alternative money and finance, sustainable governance, anthropology of finance, energy and climate issues, etc. This way of learning, experimenting by yourself in projects such as the “Make your Impact Challenge”, is aligned with the ‘learning-by-doing’ KEDGE’s Philosophy.

EXPERIMENT WITH A PRIVILEGED NETWORK

This MSc is supported by a privileged network of more than 50 companies and hundreds of alumni engaged into sustainable, ecological and impact finance. Among those partners, the MSc Ecological and Impact Finance benefits from the support of the research chairs KEDGE-CANDRIAM "Finance Reconsidered: Addressing Sustainable Economic Development" and KEDGE-LCL “Impact Finance”, whether in courses, internships, or research. It is also part of the UN PRI (Principles for Responsible Investment) grant, hosted by KEDGE BS for the 2024-2029 period. Experimentations are part of the program and supported by partnerships with companies and experts throughout teachings, case-studies, projects, applied memos or internships. The academic year is also ended by a study-trip allowing to meet experts and privileged partners.

AN INTERNATIONAL AMD MULTI-CAMPUS CURRICULUM

Through the MSc Sustainable Finance programme, KEDGE offers students a background in international corporate finance featuring:

• Opportunity to engage in a 4 to 6 month exchange with a partner university during the first year (M1)
• A full-time english curriculum in the second year (M2) at our Paris campus, taught by professors and lecturers with extensive experience both in france and internationally.