The Investment Committee consists of representatives of Investors in FCCF, independent sector experts and Directors of the Fund. Its mission is to advise the external Alternative Investment Fund Manager BIL Manage Invest S.A. with regards to the specificities of forest and wood value chain investments. The Committee receives technical support from the Fund’s investment adviser, Unique land use.
Former EIB Chief Environmentalist and Chair Accreditation Panel of the Green Climate Fund
Attaché, Ministry of the Environment
Chief Investment Officer at Foyer Group
Economist at Ministry of Finance, Luxembourg
Patrick is an independent investor and a forester. He is socially and environmentally committed to Luxembourg NGOs as a director in the respective boards.
Kaspar Wansleben is the Director Asset Servicing of Investing for Development, the asset management structure of the Forestry and Climate Change Fund. Kaspar has a background in development finance and microfinance in particular where he worked at the International Labour Organisation and at PlanetRating and as fund manager of the Luxembourg Microfinance and Development Fund since 2009.
Kaspar’s background is in finance and he is a chartered accountant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. He worked for KPMG for 5 years, is a visiting lecturer at the Luxembourg University on social entrepreneurship. In 2022, Kaspar was nominated as a member of the Luxembourg High Council for Sustainable Development.