Wim Vandenhoeck
Senior Portfolio Manager
Invesco
Wim Vandenhoeck serves as a Senior Portfolio Manager on the Invesco Oppenheimer Emerging Markets Local Debt and International Bond strategies, principally conducting interest rate and foreign currency analysis in emerging markets. Vandenhoeck joined Invesco when the firm combined with OppenheimerFunds in 2019. Prior to joining OppenheimerFunds in 2015, he was a partner at APQ Partners LLP, an emerging markets investment advisor based out of London. Prior to APQ, he was an asset manager at GLG Partners LP in London, where he focused on emerging market fixed income strategies. Before GLG, he was a partner at Six Seasons Global Asset Management LLC, Aravali Partners LLC, and Havell Capital Management LLC, all in New York, mainly managing fixed income macro strategies, often with a focus on emerging markets. Earlier in his career, he held positions at Bank Brussels Lambert and Paribas Bank. Vandenhoeck earned a BA degree from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and an MBA from Cornell University.
Senior Portfolio Manager
Invesco
Wim Vandenhoeck serves as a Senior Portfolio Manager on the Invesco Oppenheimer Emerging Markets Local Debt and International Bond strategies, principally conducting interest rate and foreign currency analysis in emerging markets. Vandenhoeck joined Invesco when the firm combined with OppenheimerFunds in 2019. Prior to joining OppenheimerFunds in 2015, he was a partner at APQ Partners LLP, an emerging markets investment advisor based out of London. Prior to APQ, he was an asset manager at GLG Partners LP in London, where he focused on emerging market fixed income strategies. Before GLG, he was a partner at Six Seasons Global Asset Management LLC, Aravali Partners LLC, and Havell Capital Management LLC, all in New York, mainly managing fixed income macro strategies, often with a focus on emerging markets. Earlier in his career, he held positions at Bank Brussels Lambert and Paribas Bank. Vandenhoeck earned a BA degree from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and an MBA from Cornell University.
Anna Vӓӓnӓnen
Head of Listed Impact
AXA IM Equity
Anna Vӓӓnӓnen is the Head of Listed Impact Equity and co-manages the AXA ACT People & Planet Equity, AXA WF ACT Clean Economy, AXA WF ACT Biodiversity strategies and AXA ACT WF Social Progress strategies together with Tom Atkinson, Ashley Keet and Anne Tolmunen.
Anna joined AXA IM in 2023 from Mirova, a leading impact boutique and affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, where she was the head of Mirova’s Global Environmental team for 4 years. Preceding that, Anna spent 9 years at Credit Suisse Asset Management in Zurich managing thematic equity strategies, and 6 years as a fund manager at FIM Asset Management and Tapiola Asset Management. She started her career in investment banking working as a sell side analyst at Salomon Brothers and Carnegie Investment Bank. Anna holds a Master of Social Science from the University of Helsinki, majoring in Economics.
Head of Listed Impact
AXA IM Equity
Anna Vӓӓnӓnen is the Head of Listed Impact Equity and co-manages the AXA ACT People & Planet Equity, AXA WF ACT Clean Economy, AXA WF ACT Biodiversity strategies and AXA ACT WF Social Progress strategies together with Tom Atkinson, Ashley Keet and Anne Tolmunen.
Anna joined AXA IM in 2023 from Mirova, a leading impact boutique and affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, where she was the head of Mirova’s Global Environmental team for 4 years. Preceding that, Anna spent 9 years at Credit Suisse Asset Management in Zurich managing thematic equity strategies, and 6 years as a fund manager at FIM Asset Management and Tapiola Asset Management. She started her career in investment banking working as a sell side analyst at Salomon Brothers and Carnegie Investment Bank. Anna holds a Master of Social Science from the University of Helsinki, majoring in Economics.
Laure Wessemius-Chibrac
Managing Director
NAB - Netherlands Advisory Board on impact investing
Laure Wessemius-Chibrac is the CEO of the NAB, the branch organisation of impact investors in the Netherlands and has been the driving force behind its establishment. The initiative was launched in 2020 by various players of the Dutch financial sector with the goal to scale up impact investments and to create more cooperation within the Dutch impact investing sector. Before that she was Head of Investments at Cordaid, an international NGO and impact investor. Next to her role at the NAB she is Chair of the supervisory Board of REGMIFA, a regional investment fund for Sub-Saharan Africa and a member of the supervisory board at SNV Development Organisation.
Laure started her career as investment banker at BNP Paribas and ABN AMRO Rothschild in Paris and London and has been committed to shaping the impact investing ecosystem for years. She holds a Master’s degree in Management Grande Ecole from NEOMA Business School.
Managing Director
NAB - Netherlands Advisory Board on impact investing
Laure Wessemius-Chibrac is the CEO of the NAB, the branch organisation of impact investors in the Netherlands and has been the driving force behind its establishment. The initiative was launched in 2020 by various players of the Dutch financial sector with the goal to scale up impact investments and to create more cooperation within the Dutch impact investing sector. Before that she was Head of Investments at Cordaid, an international NGO and impact investor. Next to her role at the NAB she is Chair of the supervisory Board of REGMIFA, a regional investment fund for Sub-Saharan Africa and a member of the supervisory board at SNV Development Organisation.
Laure started her career as investment banker at BNP Paribas and ABN AMRO Rothschild in Paris and London and has been committed to shaping the impact investing ecosystem for years. She holds a Master’s degree in Management Grande Ecole from NEOMA Business School.
