DrCara Vansteenkiste

Dr Cara Vansteenkiste is a Sydney Horizon Fellow in Finance in the University of Sydney Business School. She holds a prestigious Sydney Horizon Fellowship aiming to understand the drivers of corporate philanthropy and how it can be used to address climate change, disaster response, sustainability and health.

Her expertise covers a variety of areas in finance, economics and international business, with a focus on corporate philanthropy issues, corporate finance, the international mergers and acquisitions market, and board gender issues. Her current interest focuses on how corporate resources can be mobilised for the common good.

Trained in business economics (commerce), Dr Vansteenkiste obtained her PhD in Finance from Tilburg University, The Netherlands, in 2018. She was a visiting researcher at Harvard University's John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, and then joined UNSW Sydney Business School as Senior Lecturer. She was awarded an ARC DECRA grant in 2022 to develop her research on corporate giving.

Her work has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies and Journal of Corporate Finance, and was featured in the Australian Financial Review.