Partner & Chief Investment Officerelea Foundation
Adrian Ackeret is a Partner and the Chief Investment Officer of elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization, based in Zurich, Switzerland. He is responsible for overseeing elea’s philanthropic impact investing activities focused on building, managing, and strategically supporting a global portfolio of impact ventures that create lasting social impact by giving people living in absolute poverty access to employment, markets, and value chains. He has been directly working with investments in Latin America, Kenya, India, and in the Philippines.
Before joining elea in 2013, he worked at the St. Gallen Symposium fostering global dialogue between business, politics, and society, and with RISE management research at the intersection of strategy and entrepreneurship. Adrian graduated with an M.A. in Management from the University of St. Gallen. He is also the Deputy Managing Director of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation, a private Swiss foundation promoting a free economic and social order.