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Tenke ZOLTANI, Founder

Tenke built her career in sustainable finance and impact investments advising international corporations, private foundations, financial institutions, and HNW individuals on direct investments. She specialises in environmental finance, from catalysing innovative solutions, to identifying viable startups, and structuring purpose-fit vehicles and instruments. She is Senior Advisor to UNDP, where she leads the institution’s work on thematic debt, delivering $28bn in sovereign thematic bond issuances to date. Prior, Tenke was the Director, Impact Investing at UBS where she built the impact investing advisory offering for UHNW clients. Prior, she was an Investment Manager at Islan Asset Management in Switzerland, advising global agribusiness Bunge on sustainable direct investments, and implementing projects in least developed countries' food-water-energy sectors. Previously, Tenke worked in the emissions markets in London and Geneva across alternative investments—analysing private market opportunities in emerging markets' biomass, biogas, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy sectors. Notably, she also worked alongside Lord Nicholas Stern, author of the seminal Stern Review, in climate research and publications.

She is currently on the advisory boards of TLG Capital and Impact Finance and was previously on the Board of the AlphaMundi Foundation, and biotech pioneer Beaconcure. She advised the world's first ever species-focused impact bond, conserving rhinoceros, and on the world's first global fund for coral reef conservation. Tenke was selected as a 2013 Global Economic Symposium Fellow. Tenke holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University and a M.Sc. in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and is a CAIA Charterholder for alternative finance. When not working, Tenke competes internationally in distance and mountain running, finishing 58th in the World Championships in 2014.