Bjoern Struewer

After leaving the banking industry where he worked for over 20 years, Bjoern started working closely with public funders and impact investors to scale enterprises and innovations with strong potential for positive impact. With his team at Roots of Impact, he developed pioneering solutions such as Social Impact Incentives (SIINC) and Impact-Linked Finance as well as the Social Finance Academy.

He also leads the Initiative for Blended Finance at the University of Zurich, is Senior Fellow at theCenter for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth and a mentor at the Harvard Kennedy School's "Impact Investment for the Next Generation" program.