Carrière professionnelle
Kaspar Wansleben is the Executive Director of Investing for Development (IforD), an impact asset manager based in Luxembourg. In his role, Kaspar oversaw the launch and growth of funds dedicated to inclusive finance, tropical forest restoration, and gender equality. Professionally, he has been concerned with the mobilization of debt, equity, and grant funding for development in less and least developed countries, including widening financial access for forest communities.
Kaspar has a background in development finance and microfinance, acquired in particular during his time at the International Labour Organisation (2002) and at PlanetRating (2004) and in his role in structuring the different impact funds. Kaspar held several board positions at sector organizations, investees and networks.
Kaspar has an audit and corporate finance background and is a fellow chartered accountant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. He started his career at KPMG Luxembourg. Other than the membership of the Luxembourg High Council for Sustainable Development, he holds a board seat at the Tenure Facility, a Swedish grant instrument for indigenous and forest communities land and resource rights.
Parcours universitaire
Kaspar holds a dual German – French degree in business from the Hochschule Bremen and the Ecole de Commerce Marseille Provence (now Kedge Business School). He trained as a chartered accountant at Caer Rhun, Northern Wales and qualified (ICAEW) in 2008.
Kaspar is a visiting lecturer at the University of Luxembourg on social entrepreneurship.
Que signifie pour vous le développement durable ?
Sustainable development for me is the participatory and inclusive process to define together how do we balance the material implications of our production and consumptions needs (or our model of the economy) with the limitations of planetary resources. Most importantly it should be a positive vision of where we want to get to and a common agreement on the pathway to get there. And it should be guided by strong principles of global solidarity, we are all in the same boat.