Petri Kuusisto - Member of the ISFA Selection Committee 2025
We're delighted that Petri Kuusisto has joined the ISFA – International Social Finance Accelerator Selection Committee for 2025!
Petri Kuusisto is an investment leader with over three decades of executive experience managing large-scale global portfolios across Finland, the Baltics, and the Middle East. As CIO for a Sovereign Wealth Fund, he oversaw strategic investments and managed an innovative USD 6 billion sharia-compliant treasury. Most recently, he has focused on originating, developing, and financing large energy transition projects across Eastern Europe and Finland using sophisticated blended finance structures.
His expertise spans ESG/Impact investing, fund design and launch, capital raising, and innovative financing structures. As a serial entrepreneur for 18 years, Petri has successfully launched and exited two asset management companies while working across consulting, financial services, natural capital (timberland), and real assets. He designed, launched, and managed several funds including EM/Frontier Equity Funds (Luxembourg) and raised capital for these and other investment vehicles. His influence extends through his UN consulting work on social impact bonds and his role as co-founder of the Impact Innovation Institute, a for-benefit entity focused on research and advisory services.
Petri's passion for catalysing change of mindset within investments and finance perfectly aligns with ISFA's mission to scale social finance innovation. His upcoming article "Towards Sustainable Portfolio Theory" (to be presented at World Resource Hub in September 2025) demonstrates his thought leadership in defining the future of innovative investing and finance.
Petri states, "Great to see Luxembourg taking emerging social entrepreneurs into focus and hence helping this ecosystem to grow. I am humbled to serve on the selection committee."
We are confident that Petri’s strategic insight, entrepreneurial leadership in ESG and blended‑finance investments will significantly reinforce ISFA’s mission to identify and nurture the most promising fund managers who share our commitment to social impact.
