Kostis Tselenis

Managing Partner at Swiss Impact Office

Moderator

Kostis is regarded as one of the pioneering investment experts that helped shape sustainability and impact investing in Europe; In the last two decades he has managed diversified impact portfolios with direct investments and funds in the 100s of millions, targeting global environmental and social challenges. He has covered several areas from Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Private Equity and Project Finance to Fund and Portfolio Management, among others by working with Lombard Odier, Bregal Energy / Good Energies of the COFRA Holding, Quadia and Alternative Bank Schweiz, before founding Swiss Impact Office in Zurich.

He has been invited as a speaker in international events and conferences, organized impact events, published articles in electronic and print media and held guest lectures in Swiss and European Universities.

He is also Chairman of the Board of Generation Forest Invest, a biodiverse reforestation and carbon company and has established in 2018 the Hellenic Impact Investing Network, an ecosystem building platform for Greece and Southeast Europe.

He got his Masters degree with magna cum laude in Economics & Finance at the University of Zurich, is Swiss and Greek, and lives in Zurich.