Ylva Baeckström

Profile

Job title

Senior Lecturer in Finance, King’s Business School, King’s College London

Biography

Main responsibilities

Dr Ylva Baeckström is a former banker and fintech entrepreneur, now a psychotherapist, and Senior Lecturer at King’s Business School where she heads Sustainable Finance at the Centre for Sustainable Business. 

Experience and qualifications

Ylva is an expert on financial advice, gender and sustainability in financial services. Ylva delivered a TEDx in 2020 and her book Gender and Finance was published in 2022. Ylva’s research contributed to the UK government inquiry Sexism in the City and is published in academic journals and has featured widely in the media.

Ylva is Associate Editor at The European Journal of Finance and Gender, Work & Organization and a Senior Fellow of Rennes Business School.