Biography
Nathan de Arriba-Sellier is the Director of the Erasmus Platform for Sustainable Value Creation at Rotterdam School of Management, where he leads research on sustainable finance policy and regulation.
Prior to his current position, Nathan was the Research Director of the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance, a Postdoctoral Associate at the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, and a Lecturer at Yale University. In this capacity, he organized the 6th Annual Conference of the Global Research Alliance on Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI) and received the 2023 Yale Sustainability Award for Faculty.
Nathan's expertise in sustainable finance is recognized internationally, and covers a wide array of legal issues related to finance and the environment, particularly corporate law, financial regulation, and monetary policy. EU constitutional and administrative law also count among his research interests.
Nathan was a visiting scholar at Stanford Unviersity, Duke University, and Queen Mary University of London. He has published articles in top-tier law reviews both in Europe and in the United States, and presented his research at prestigious institutions such as the Bank of England, or the Max Planck Institute. His research has featured internationally in mainstream and specialized media, from Le Monde to Het Financieele Dagblad and Politico.
Nathan received a double doctoral degree from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Leiden University as a LDE fellow. Prior to his PhD, Nathan clerked for the EU law unit of Conseil d'Etat, France's highest administrative court and legal advisor to the government. Before that, he was an assistant to the French General Consul in Hamburg, Germany. He also used to serve as vice-president in charge of student life at his alma mater, University Jean Moulin Lyon 3.
In addition to his PhD, Nathan holds an LL.M in EU Law from College of Europe (Bruges) as well as an LL.M. in International and European Business Law from the University of Vienna. He graduated valedictorian with a 'Maîtrise' in European law from the University Jean Moulin Lyon 3 after a year at University Hamburg where he was enrolled as part of the Erasmus exchange programme. During his bachelor, he studied French public law, German law and U.S. law.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- dearribasellier@rsm.nl
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Work
- Nathan de Arriba - Sellier & Arnaud van Caenegem (2025) - Sustainability-related Materiality in the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) - doi: 10.1017/9781009483971.014
- Nathan de Arriba - Sellier (2025) - Sustainable Finance: Green Taxonomies as Instruments of System Change? - doi: 10.4337/9781035324408.00019
- Nathan de Arriba - Sellier (2024) - The Net-Zero Ledger: Accountability and Regulation of Corporate Climate Pledges
- Nathan de Arriba - Sellier (2024) - Symposium: Climate Protection as a European Fundamental Right under the ECHR and beyond: Editorial - [link]
- Nathan de Arriba - Sellier (2024) - Confronter la Tempête à Venir: La Supervision des Risques Climatiques et Environnementaux par la BCE - Revue des Affaires Européennes – Law & European Affairs, 2023 (3), 869-884 - [link]
- Nathan de Arriba - Sellier (2023) - Losing patience: The ECB’s supervision of climate risks - [link]
- Nathan de Arriba - Sellier (2023) - Obligations without accountability? The ECB and the European Climate Law - [link]
- Nathan de Arriba - Sellier (2023) - The ISSB’s new standards: breaking ground or low hanging fruits? - [link]
- Nathan de Arriba - Sellier (2023) - Go Big or Go Home: The Home State Supervision Principle in the European System of Financial Supervision
- Nathan de Arriba - Sellier (2023) - The International Regulation and Coordination of Sustainable Finance - doi: 10.1007/978-94-6265-587-4_8 - [link]
- Nathan de Arriba - Sellier (6 september 2023) - Meet the financial regulator with a laser focus on climate
- Nathan de Arriba - Sellier (27 juni 2023) - Global accounting group outlines plan for more climate disclosure
- Nathan de Arriba - Sellier (13 januari 2023) - La nouvelle politique d’investissements des Etats-Unis est un modèle à suivre
- Nathan de Arriba - Sellier (19 juli 2021) - L’intégration des questions climatiques à la politique monétaire s’inscrit pleinement dans le mandat de la BCE
- Nathan de Arriba - Sellier (2025) - RENFORCE Seminar - Awakening a Sleeping Giant: Article 11 TFEU as a General Principle of EU Law (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic - Nathan de Arriba - Sellier (2024) - The Net-Zero Ledger: Accountability & Regulation of Corporate Climate Pledges (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Professional - Nathan de Arriba - Sellier (2024) - U.N. Taskforce on Net Zero Policy (External organisation) (Chair)
Activiteit: Membership of committee › Professional - Nathan de Arriba - Sellier & Tuvana Aras (2023) - Uncovering Article 11 TFEU: The Impact of the European Green Deal on the Environmental Integration Principle (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Nathan de Arriba - Sellier (2023) - The Net-Zero Ledger: How to Regulate Corporate Net-Zero Commitments? (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Professional - Nathan de Arriba - Sellier (2023) - The Net-Zero Ledger: How to Regulate Corporate Net-Zero Commitments? (Invited speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Nathan Arriba - Sellier (2021) - The Sisyphean Task of European Financial Supervision (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Nathan Arriba - Sellier (2019) - Turning Gold into Green: Green Finance and the Mandate of Supervisory Authorities in Europe (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Nathan Arriba - Sellier (2019) - An English Afternoon: Brexit & Tea (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Professional - Nathan Arriba - Sellier (2019) - Conférence sur la Finance Verte (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Professional