Dörte Höppner

Chief Sustainability Officer/ Managing Director, Fundraising & Investor Relations at The Riverside Company

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Dörte Höppner is the Chief Sustainability Officer of The Riverside Company and heads up global ESG initiatives for the firm. In addition, she leads the firm’s European fund raising and investor relations activities. Prior to joining Riverside in 2017, Dörte was Chief Executive at Invest Europe, the European private equity association for six years, and before that Managing Director of the German PE & VC Association (BVK).

An economist by training, Dörte is also a Sustainable and Responsible Investment Advisor (certified by the European Business School EBS). Outside Riverside, Dörte serves as the Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board at Finance in Motion, Europe’s biggest impact asset manager, and is a member of the mission committee of Armen, a French “loi Pacte” management company. Dörte is a regular writer and speaker and a recognized industry voice on a broad swathe of ESG and DE&I issues. She has been honoured by InvestEurope as one of the most influential Women in Private Investment over the past 40 years and recognised by Financial News in its annual ‘20 Trailblazing Women in Private Equity’ list.