Description: Jan Fichtner works on International Political Economy & Global Finance (Senior Research Fellow, CORPNET Project, University of Amsterdam).
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Jan Fichtner is Senior Research Fellow in the Project “ Climate change and global finance at the crossroads: Policy challenges, politico-economic dynamics, and sustainable transformation ” at the University of Witten/Herdecke (Germany).
In the CORPNET project at the University of Amsterdam (2016-2020) Jan led the subproject on the rise of index providers and the ascent of very large passive asset managers, such as BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street – and their impact on global corporate governance, corporate control and climate change mitigation.