Biography
Dirk Schoenmaker is Professor of Banking and Finance at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research and teaching focus on the areas of sustainable finance, sustainable economy, central banking and European financial integration. He is regular speaker at academic and professional conferences.
Dirk Schoenmaker is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Research (CEPR) and member of the Sustainable Finance Lab. He is co-author of the textbooks 'Corporate Finance for Long-Term Value' (Springer), 'Principles of Sustainable Finance' (Oxford University Press) and ‘Financial Markets and Institutions: A European perspective' (Cambridge University Press) and author of ‘Governance of International Banking: The Financial Trilemma’ (Oxford University Press). He earned his PhD in economics at the London School of Economics.
Before joining RSM, he was Dean of the Duisenberg school of finance from 2009 to 2015. From 1998 to 2008, he served at the Netherlands Ministry of Finance. In the 1990s he served at the Bank of England.
His latest textbook can be found at: https://www.longtermvalue.com/
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Full professor | Department of Finance
- schoenmaker@rsm.nl
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Work
- Dirk Schoenmaker & Willem Schramade (2025) - Teaching finance for responsible management - International Journal of Management Education, 23 (2) - doi: 10.1016/j.ijme.2025.101170 - [link]
- Dirk Schoenmaker & Nathan de Arriba-Sellier (2025) - Sustainable Finance in the Netherlands - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-88392-7_8 - [link]
- Henk Jan Reinders, Dirk Schoenmaker & Mathijs van Dijk (2025) - Climate risk stress testing: A critical survey and classification - Journal of Climate Finance, 10 - doi: 10.1016/j.jclimf.2025.100061 - [link]
- Dirk Schoenmaker & Willem Schramade (2024) - Shareholder primacy or stakeholder governance? - Finance Research Letters, 69 - doi: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.106244 - [link]
- Dirk Schoenmaker & Willem Schramade (2024) - Which discount rate for sustainability? - Journal of Sustainable Finance and Accounting, 3 - doi: 10.1016/j.josfa.2024.100010
- Dion Bongaerts & Dirk Schoenmaker (2024) - Liquidity and clientele effects in green debt markets - Journal of Corporate Finance, 86 - doi: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2024.102582
- Reinier de Adelhart Toorop, Dirk Schoenmaker & Willem Schramade (2024) - Decision Rules for Corporate Investment † - International Journal of Financial Studies, 12 (1) - doi: 10.3390/ijfs12010024 - [link]
- Jasper Bertels, Emma Lear, Victoria Gutierrez, Helen Ding, Willem Ferwerda, Andras Krolopp, Felicity Spors, Daniel Zimmer, Paul Chatterton, Ayesha Bery, Christian del Valle, Monique Ewerton, Pietro Galgani, Serena Guarnaschelli, Stephen Hart, Diego Herrera, Dennis Kerkhoven, Nanno Kleiterp, Edit Kiss, Alessia Lenders, Sarah Lupberger, Krishna Malhotra , Nathalie Olsen, Sarah J. Scherr, Dirk Schoenmaker, Rupert Simons, Caroline van Leenders & Astrid Zabel (2023) - Towards financing large-scale holistic landscape restoration in Europe: Recommendations for EU policy actors to attain inspirational, social, natural, and financial returns - [link]
- Dirk Schoenmaker & Willem Schramade (2023) - Corporate Finance for Long-Term Value - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-35009-2 - [link]
- Steve Kennedy, Martin Fuchs, Wouter van Ingen & Dirk Schoenmaker (2023) - A resilience approach to corporate biodiversity impact measurement - Business Strategy and the Environment, 32 (5), 2567-2582 - doi: 10.1002/bse.3140 - [link]
- Yvonne van Everdingen, Dirk Schoenmaker & Mathijs van Dijk (12 juli 2023) - RSM projects receive conditional €multi-million grants from Dutch Nationaal Groeifonds
- Martin de Jong & Dirk Schoenmaker (21 april 2023) - Erasmus University Researcher Illuminates Research in Sustainability Research (Why Corporate Sustainability Is Not Yet Measured)
- Dirk Schoenmaker (14 december 2022) - Carbon Bias in Index Investing
- Dirk Schoenmaker & Willem Schramade (10 november 2022) - Sustainability Scholar Joins Schroders
- Dirk Schoenmaker (21 december 2021) - JPMorgan's Paris Traders Are Only Part of the Threat to London
- Dirk Schoenmaker (27 juli 2020) - The EU’s “Robin Hood” tax is being resurrected
- Arjen Mulder, Rob van Tulder, Dirk Schoenmaker & Mirjam Werner (11 december 2019) - Five new sustainable business study cases for restoring landscapes
- Dirk Schoenmaker & Willem Schramade (4 december 2019) - How to change the paradigm in finance to incorporate a changing environment
- Marta Szymanowska, Rob van Tulder, Rene de Koster, Erik van Raaij, Dirk Schoenmaker, Steef van de Velde, Steve Kennedy, Gabriele Jacobs, Yashar Ghiassi-Farrokhfal, Ferdinand Jaspers, Michaéla Schippers & Frank Wijen (11 juni 2019) - New online course: Driving Business Towards The SDGs
- Dirk Schoenmaker (2 april 2019) - Central banks are thinking greener as climate change hits policy
Staatsbosbeheer
- Start date approval
- september 2024
- End date approval
- september 2027
- Place
- AMERSFOORT
- Description
- Raad van Toezicht
Part-time professor, European University Institute
- Start date approval
- oktober 2024
- End date approval
- september 2027
- Place
- FLORENCE
- Description
- 2 dagen per jaar college voor centrale bankiers
SFL Sustainable Finance Lab
- Start date approval
- oktober 2024
- End date approval
- oktober 2027
- Place
- UTRECHT
- Description
- academisch co-voorzitter
PFZW
- Start date approval
- januari 2025
- End date approval
- januari 2028
- Place
- ZEIST
- Description
- Bestuur pensioenfonds
FI Honours Class - LMC Registration
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BMHON1FI-LMC
Corporate Finance
- Year Level
- master, IM/CEMS, Exchange, ERIM
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BM02FI
FI Honours Class
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- BMHON1FI
Board Member and Chair of Investment Committee
- Start date approval
- februari 2022
Supervisory Board Member
- Start date approval
- januari 2022
Co-Chair
- Start date approval
- mei 2017
