Alexander Kalis on Clubhouse

Bio

Alexander Kalis is Managing Partner of Milltrust International LLP

He is the Head of Investments and Head of Sustainability & Impact at Milltrust.

He is the Portfolio Manager for The Climate Impact Asia Fund, a pioneering long-only environmental impact equity fund which he initiated and launched in exclusive partnership with WWF-Hong Kong. The fund was awarded the Environmental Finance 2020 Impact Award for Impact Initiative of the Year: Asia.

Mr Kalis also serves as Portfolio Manager for The British Innovation Fund, a venture capital fund investing in UK-wide university science and technology spin-outs and start- ups which have commercialised pioneering and protected IP emanating from world-class university research.

He serves as the Portfolio Manager for the Australia and New Zealand Buy & Lease Sustainable Agriculture Funds, as well as co-Portfolio Manager for the award-winning Milltrust Global Emerging Markets Fund.

Separately, Mr Kalis has been appointed an Independent Expert at EIT Climate-KIC, Europe’s largest public-private partnership, supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Mr. Kalis is a seasoned investment professional with over two decades experience working at top-tier asset management firms including Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management and Santander Asset Management where he built a long track record managing institutional capital in the Emerging Markets.

He was previously Managing Partner at Think Alternative Advisors LLP, an Emerging Markets research and advisory firm he founded, which was acquired by Milltrust International Group in 2010.

He speaks fluent English, French and Dutch, and holds a Master’s in Management from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.