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Co-Host Head of Sustainable Finance Managing Director

Bank J. Safra Sarasin Ltd

Co-Host Head of Sustainable Finance Managing Director

Bank J. Safra Sarasin Ltd

Sasja Beslik is a Swedish and international financial expert known for promoting financial sustainability across the world. He has been employed by J. Safra Sarasin since 2019. Beslik won the Swedish Banking Profile of the Year award in 2016. 

In 2013, he received the H. M. The King's Medal, 8th size with the ribbon of the Order of the Seraphim from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden for outstanding contributions to Swedish environmental and sustainable development within the financial sector 

He was chosen as a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos in 2011. 

Stars Fund, the Nordea sustainable fund launched by Beslik in 2011, was chosen as Sweden's best overall equity fund in 2017. It was the first sustainable fund to receive the award.

His work for Nordea started in 2009 when he became head of responsible investments and corporate governance. He was named CEO of Nordea Investment Funds Sweden in 2011 and head of responsible investments and identity at Nordea Asset Management in 2013. Finally, at the beginning of 2017, Nordea placed Beslik at the head of a new unit, Sustainable Finance, tasked with implementing the decisions made by the company's corporate responsibility unit. 

He is the author of the book "Guld och gröna skogar" (2019). 

 

  1. Safra Sarasin Group – Sustainable Swiss Private Banking since 1841

As an international group committed to sustainability, J. Safra Sarasin is well-established through its banks in more than 25 locations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean. A global symbol of private banking and wealth management tradition, the group emphasizes security and well-managed conservative growth for its clients. At the end of December 2018, it managed total client assets of CHF 165 billion and employed about 2,200 staff, with stockholder equity of CHF 5.1 billion.

 

  1. Safra Group

The J. Safra Group (the Group), with total assets under management of over USD 242 billion and aggregate stockholders’ equity of USD 19.3 billion, is controlled by the Joseph Safra family. The Group consists of privately owned banks under the Safra name and investment holdings in asset-based business sectors such as real estate and agribusiness. The Group’s banking interests in over 160 locations globally are J. Safra Sarasin, headquartered in Basel, Switzerland; Banco Safra, headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Safra National Bank of New York, headquartered in New York City, all independent from one another from a consolidated supervision standpoint. The Group’s real estate holdings consist of more than 200 premier commercial, residential, retail, and farmland properties worldwide, such as New York City’s 660 Madison Avenue office complex and London’s iconic Gherkin Building. Its investments in other sectors include, among others, agribusiness holdings in Brazil and Chiquita Brands International Inc. With deep relationships in markets worldwide, the Group can greatly enhance the value of businesses that are a part of it. There are more than 33,000 employees associated with the J. Safra Group.

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