Julie Engelhorn

Biography

As the CEO of POLLEX GmbH, Julie spends her time finding impact investments across all asset classes, with a personal passion for direct deals in Africa. Julie studied medicine and health economics at Heidelberg University, with a diploma in tropical medicine from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg. She should be finishing her doctorate on malaria vaccine research, which she performed at the Centre de Recherches Médicales in Lambaréné, Gabon. However, the impact investing world grabs most of her attention.