Part of the Insitute’s mission is to foster capacity building for sustainable finance activities via green financial literacy. Inafina ( was established to connect society (private individuals and beyond) to financial institutions with an visible active ecological & social engagement and a clear vision towards sustainable finance.
Heidrun Kopp is the Founder and CEO of the Institute of the Vienna based „ Sustainable Finance Institute“. Sarah is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She was also formerly a trustee of CSV, one of the UK’s largest volunteering charities. Sarah is a non-executive director of Social Finance, a Companion at the Chartered Management Institute and a Visiting Professor at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at Kings College London. She started her career working for the UN Conference for Trade and Development’s debt management programme in Geneva. Prior to working at the Financial Times, Sarah worked in emerging markets fund management for Citigroup’s asset management business and at Foreign & Colonial, where her role included reviewing political and economic events, and producing analysis of the global economy. She is also in charge of the Institute’s policy and advocacy work around green+ sovereign bonds, impact reporting and social investment.īefore Sarah was appointed CEO of the Impact Investing Institute in July 2019, she was Business Editor at the Financial Times, where she worked for 18 years. Sarah leads the Institute’s team and works closely with the Board, the Advisory Council and external stakeholders to deliver the Institute’s strategy. Rotary Club Mödling and is active as a parish councilor in the parish of Maria Enzersdorf. Klaus Bergsmann is a member of the “Erste Responsible Advisory Board” of Erste Asset Management and of the advisory board for the “Erste WWF Stock Environment Fund”, an investment fund of Erste Group that is oriented towards strict sustainability criteria.
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In April 2020, Klaus Bergsmann retired after 42 years of professional activity and has since been working as an independent management consultant for “sustainable solutions”. Regulatory requirements through the “Green Deal” of the European Commission. The main focus was on the introduction of environmental sustainability in banking operations, the development of comprehensive sustainability reporting and the implementation of the new In the last years of his professional career, Klaus Bergsmann built up the topic of sustainability in Erste Group and was Sustainability Officer for the entire Erste Group. Responsibility for negotiations of a long-term cooperation agreement between Vienna Insurance Group and Erste Group combined with the sale of Erste Group’s entire insurance activities to VIG.
The engagement in the insurance industry was completed with the This was followed by responsibility for building up the international insurance business in Sparkassen Versicherungs-AG, with new start-ups or the re-organization of life insurance companies in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia and Romania. The biggest challenge was the purchase and integration of Ceska sporitel’ňa (Czech savings bank) into Erste Group. Among others, Klaus Bergsmann was board secretary, head of the savings banks department, responsible for the acquisition of various Austrian savings banks (including Knittelfeld, Hainburg, Salzburg, Mühlviertel-West, …) for both Girozentrale and Erste Bank.
Since 19982 he has held various positions in the financial sector (Girozentrale, Erste Bank and Erste Group). Further education followed in the field of cultural management, project management, various bank management trainings and environmental management. After graduating from the HTL Mödling/Mechanical Engineering, Klaus Bergsmann was an assistant at the HTL Mödling and at the same time completed his studies in economics at the University of Vienna.