Guillermo Badía Fraile

Guillermo Badía Fraile serves as an Assistant Professor in Accounting and Finance at Deusto Business School, University of Deusto (Bilbao, Spain), while also leading the Finance Research Group as its main researcher (Investigador principal). He holds a PhD in Financial Economics and Accounting from the University of Zaragoza and has been a Member of the EUROSIF SRI Market Study Committee since 2020.

His educational foundation includes doctoral training in Financial Economics and Accounting at the University of Zaragoza, establishing his expertise in quantitative financial analysis and sustainable investment frameworks.

Badía's research centers on empirical analysis of socially responsible investment performance, corporate social responsibility integration, multinational firm expansion strategies, portfolio evaluation methodologies, and systemic financial risk assessment. His work bridges theoretical finance with practical sustainability applications, emphasizing data-driven approaches to ethical investment and global market dynamics.

He actively contributes to academic discourse through editorial review for International Review of Financial Analysis and Finance Research Letters, and previously founded the BBS research seminar series at the University of Zaragoza where he served as inaugural president.

Badía has secured funding through multiple national, European, and international research projects while receiving unspecified scholarships and awards for his contributions to sustainable finance scholarship.

As head of the Finance Research Group at Deusto Business School, he directs collaborative investigations into emerging market finance and ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) investment frameworks, mentoring junior researchers in quantitative methodology development.