Laura Kaliszewski

Global Head of Client Sustainable Investing - Natixis Investment Managers

Laura Kaliszewski is Global Head of Client Sustainable Investing at Natixis Investment Managers, a dedicated team to support clients in their sustainability goals, as a trusted and strategic sustainable expert function. Laura also works closely with Natixis’ IM investment managers, to ensure alignment between their capabilities and clients’ needs. She is also leading Natixis IM’s industry-wide thought leadership initiatives on sustainability topics such as blended finance.

Laura Kaliszewski joined Natixis IM in 2020 and previously served as Head of Sustainable Investment Solutions, responsible for strengthening the firm's sustainability capabilities and developing its range of innovative sustainable solutions. She has more than 15 years of experience in sustainable and impact investing, portfolio management, credit, and risk with firms including Moody’s, BlueOrchard, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan, as well as within international development organizations such as the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation.

As part of her function, Laura also has several advisory roles on blended finance topics, such as co-head of the advisory committee on private capital mobilization within the Investor Leadership Network, a G7 initiative, and member of the working group of the French Institute of Sustainable Finance (IFD) to participate in a better reorientation of capital flows towards the financing of climate transition projects in emerging countries.

She earned a master’s degree in global affairs from New York University and a master’s degree in international economics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.