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 is an investment professional with 25 years of experience in the financial sector, specialized in sustainability and impact. A former investment banker, she started working in 1995 at Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) in Equity Advisory, then joined ABN AMRO Rothschild in 2000, first in Paris where she structured equity transactions, and from 2001 in London where she directed marketing and syndication of equity and equity-linked transactions. Laure moved to The Netherlands in 2005 and worked as an independent consultant in strategy and financial advisory. In parallel, she remained involved in various impact initiatives as a volunteer. From 2013 to 2018, she was head of investments at Cordaid, an INGO based in The Netherlands, and led the transformation into a fully independent impact fund. Since 2018 she works as an impact advisor and non-executive director. Laure is Chairman of the Board of Directors and member of the audit committee of REGMIFA (Regional MSME investment fund in Sub-Saharan Africa) since May 2019. Laure established the Netherlands Advisory Board on impact investing (Stichting NAB) and is its Managing Director since 2020.
Managing Director
NAB - Netherlands Advisory Board on impact investing
Laure is an investment professional with 25 years of experience in the financial sector, specialized in sustainability and impact. A former investment banker, she started working in 1995 at Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) in Equity Advisory, then joined ABN AMRO Rothschild in 2000, first in Paris where she structured equity transactions, and from 2001 in London where she directed marketing and syndication of equity and equity-linked transactions. Laure moved to The Netherlands in 2005 and worked as an independent consultant in strategy and financial advisory. In parallel, she remained involved in various impact initiatives as a volunteer. From 2013 to 2018, she was head of investments at Cordaid, an INGO based in The Netherlands, and led the transformation into a fully independent impact fund. Since 2018 she works as an impact advisor and non-executive director. Laure is Chairman of the Board of Directors and member of the audit committee of REGMIFA (Regional MSME investment fund in Sub-Saharan Africa) since May 2019. Laure established the Netherlands Advisory Board on impact investing (Stichting NAB) and is its Managing Director since 2020.
