
Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester , Manchester, June 7-9 2026
5th CINSC/2026 INFINITI
Conference on INternational Sustainable and Climate Finance/ INternational FINancial Integration
Future Finance and Economics Association and Manchester University
FFEA and The UJniversity of Manchester University invite you to submit papers for the 5th CINSC/ 2026 INFINITI Conference.
PAPER SUBMISSION WILL OPEN JAN 2026
Papers, abstracts and workshop proposals can be submitted here .
Submissions will be taken until March 10 2026.
Registration closes May 10 2026
Theme
We welcome all papers and workshops in the broad fields of International, Climate and Green finance, welcoming in particular their interactions with each other and how they can aid the sustainable growth of economies, corporations and organizations. We welcome papers in the area of international financial integration and financial globalization. Papers that examine these issues on their own are welcomed, but papers which examine the overlaps, interstices, conflicts and concordances are highly welcome!
Timeline
Papers and extended abstracts, as well as proposals for workshops and panel discussions, should be submitted by 10 March 2025. Submissions and Registrations will open in early 2025
About the Conference
Conference Logistics
- Conference sessions will take place at Alliance Manchester Business School
- The conference will be in person only.
- Sessions typically last for 90m, and contain one workshop/roundtable or three papers with discussants.
- Authors of accepted papers will be required to also act as discussants.
- We do not issue visa letters or letters of support. We do issue letters of acceptance of papers or proposals which should act for this.
- Conference fees are all inclusive of meals and supporting documentation
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Conference attendance fee is likely to be in the region of £400-500.
Inquiries
Local Organization
Professor Stuart Hyde


Keynote Speaker : Professor Betty Simkins, Oklahoma State University
Betty J. Simkins, Ph.D., is the Williams Companies Chair, Regents Professor of Finance, and Head of the Department of Finance at Oklahoma State University’s Spears School of Business. She has a Ph.D. in Finance from Case Western Reserve University, an MBA from Oklahoma State University (OSU), and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arkansas. Prior to getting her PhD, Dr. Simkins (Betty) began her career as a chemical engineer in the oil and gas industry for Conoco and as an engineer and planning analyst for Williams Companies. Currently, in addition to teaching energy finance courses at OSU and conducting research that she presents internationally, she also teaches executive education for energy companies globally. In June 2018, she was appointed to the Market Risk Advisory Committee for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
She has coauthored more than 70 journal articles and book chapters and has won best paper awards for her research. She has published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Management, Journal of Futures Markets, among others. In addition, she has published extensively on energy finance and enterprise risk management including three books titled: Energy Finance and Economics: Analysis and Valuation, Risk Management, and the Future of Energy (2013);, Enterprise Risk Management: Insights and Analysis on Today's Leading Research and Best Practices (2010); and Implementing Enterprise Risk Management: Case Studies and Best Practices (2014), all published by Wiley.
Betty is very active professionally. She is editor (and founding co-editor) of the Journal of Commodity Markets and serves on the editorial boards of 11 other academic journals including the Journal of Banking and Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, British Accounting Review, and the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. She is past president of the Eastern Finance Association and Vice President of Education for the Financial Management Association International. She is a member of several energy industry associations including the NGEAO (Natural Gas and Energy Association of Oklahoma), the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE).
