Ralph Keitel

CIO at SIFEM

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Ralph Keitel is Head of the Funds group at responsAbility Investment AG, a Zurich-headquartered asset manager with over $5bn in AuM. Since March 1, 2023, responsAbility is the Fund Manager of SIFEM (the Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets), the Swiss DFI, where Ralph performs the role of CIO.

Prior to joining responsAbility in Sept 2022, Ralph was Principal Investment Officer in the Private Equity and Investment Funds department of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. During his 16-year tenure, he headed IFC’s private equity fund activities in Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America and East Asia and was based in Washington DC, Johannesburg and Singapore.

Previous, Ralph had been with the Caisse de Dépot et Placement de Québec (CDPQ) in Montréal, where he managed a portfolio of venture capital funds in North America and Europe. Previously, he spent nearly 5 years with TBG (now part of the KfW Group, Frankfurt), providing seed early-stage venture capital financing for technology start-up companies before assuming responsibility for TBG’s funds portfolio.

Ralph holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Bonn (Germany) as well as a post-graduate degree in Finance and Management (Dean’s Honour List) from McGill University in Montreal (Canada).