AXA IM Alts, a specialist in alternative investments with €185 billion of assets under management, has appointed Laurent Lavergne to the newly created role of Global Head of Sustainability, effective 1 October 2023.
AXA IM Alts, a specialist in alternative investments with €185 billion of assets under management, has appointed Laurent Lavergne to the newly created role of Global Head of Sustainability, effective 1 October 2023.
In his new position, reporting directly to Global Head of AXA IM Alts, Isabelle Scemama, Lavergne will be responsible for the development and deployment of AXA IM Alts’s sustainability strategy across all AXA IM Alts’s business lines, comprising Real Estate, Infrastructure, Alternative Credit and Natural Capital & Impact Investments. He will also be a voting member of the investment committee for direct investments (Real Estate and Infrastructure Equity as well as Natural Capital).
Lavergne will also assume the current responsibilities of Justin Travlos, Global Head of Responsible Investment, which were primarily focused on Real Estate and Infrastructure. After five years with AXA IM Alts, Travlos is returning home to Australia and will leave the business towards the end of 2023.
A key priority for Lavergne will be to oversee the successful ongoing implementation of AXA IM Alts’s ambitious decarbonisation strategy across the business’ direct investments, with a particular focus on those in the Real Estate, Infrastructure and Natural Capital Sectors, where the biggest impact can be made.
