Céline Louche

Céline Louche is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Waikato, specialising in interactions between business and society, covering topics such as corporate responsibility, sustainable development, and responsible finance.

Academic career
Louche completed a PhD titled Ethical investment: processes and mechanisms of institutionalisation in the Netherlands, 1990–2002 at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Louche worked at Triodos Bank in The Netherlands, as a sustainability advisor, before entering academia. Louche was assistant professor of corporate responsibility at the Vlerick Business School in Belgium, and associate professor at the Audencia Nantes School of Management in France.

Louche joined the faculty of the School of Management and Marketing Operations at University of Waikato, rising to full professor. Louche researches topics like corporate responsibility, sustainable development, and responsible finance. Louche co-authored a book on dilemmas in responsible financing, which was published by Routledge in 2011 and reissued as an ebook in 2017.

Louche is on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including Business & Society, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, M@n@gement and Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, Organization & Environment. Louche was the jury chairwoman for the Forum pour l'Investissement Responsable (Sustainabile Investment Forum) PIR Awards in 2023. Louche has had visiting fellowships at Stanford University and University of California Berkeley.