YVONNE BAKKUM

Independent impact leader, Ympact Boost

Yvonne is an independent advisor, interim manager and board member focused on boosting the positive impact of capital. Since early 2024 she has been advising Achmea Investment Management on the development and acceleration of their impact investing proposition. She was founding MD of FMO Investment Management BV, mobilising private capital at scale for the SDGs. Yvonne worked at FMO for 22 years and held various other positions including Director Private Equity, Manager Credit Analysis and Manager Business Development. Earlier she worked at ABN AMRO Bank. She holds a master’s degree in business economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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Since 2022 Yvonne chairs the Netherlands Advisory Board on impact investing. She is also the Chair of the Supervisory Board of Incofin Investment Management and member of the Investment Committee of Impact First Group (until recently Social Impact Fund Rotterdam, now including SIF The Hague and soon also Amsterdam). In 2022 and 2023 she was listed in the Netherlands top 50 ‘Women in Sustainable Finance’.