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CREATING IMPACT WITH MY RESEARCH
Prof. Dr. Lehner is a long-term advisor to regulatory boards and policymakers, such as the OECD, the UNDP, or the European Union, and has been working on large scale projects funded by these institutions, for example on Impact Investing or more recently on Bio-Diversity measurement and financing.
Besides working as principal consultant and team leader, his specific areas of expertise in this are:
finding and defining a firm-specific and actionable sustainability strategy, together with its managers, owners and stakeholders
moderating the choice and related activities and goal-setting towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Balanced Scorecards
tintroducing regulations such as the EU Corporate Sustainable Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the classification and evaluation of activities under the EU Taxonomy in a sustainability report
the setup and introduction of a patented 360-degree, enterprise risk management radar that includes financial, operational as well as sustainability risks within the ISO 14.000 series
the use of data science and AI to identify and prepare the necessary data for the greenhouse emissions and other sustainability and risk reports
creating job descriptions and searching for personnel in the areas of sustainability and data science
Director Advisory, KPMG Austria
KMPG Austria is the strong partner of companies in terms of auditing and consulting.
KPMG Advisory brings more security and transparency to the day-to-day business of companies. It helps to successfully seize opportunities and improve the performance through appropriate measures.
Dr. Othmar Lehner is a Director of Advisory at KPMG Austria.
olehner(at)kpmg.at
RECENT ACADEMIC BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Routledge
2022
RECENT BLOG POSTS
Research Agenda on Social Finance
Moderation of ESG Data Webinar
Opening of the Quantum Lab @Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki
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