Expertise
Astrid started her career as an investment banker, but 20 years ago during her MBA at London Business School, she pivoted to impact finance and social entrepreneurship and has since never looked back. She passionately believes in the power of unlocking transformative capital and business as a force for good. Over the past two decades, she has served as the Impact Finance Director at GoodBrand, co-founded the first independent impact investment fund in the Netherlands, and guided numerous clients on a transformative journey to shift from conventional business or investing to sustainable, impact-driven performance. She has designed innovative impact finance mechanisms like industry pivot funds to drive systemic shifts in industries and rapidly scale solutions to the biggest and most urgent global challenges. Her most recent role was at IMAGINE to guide (finance) leaders to move beyond an incremental, compliance-focused mindset into a future-fit sustainable performance space.
In addition to her role at Anthesis, she serves on three boards: the Impact Advisory Board of Rubio Impact Ventures, the Reefsystems Foundation board, and the board of UWC NL (United World Colleges).