Zarmeen Pavri

Partner & Chief Impact Officer, SDG and Senior Adviser, Global Impact Investing Network

Zarmeen Pavri is a Partner and Chief Impact Officer of SDGx – a technology focussed VC investment management and impact advisory firm, headquartered Singapore with offices in Sydney, Berlin and Bangkok. SDGx Ventures manages a climate technology VC fund across Australia, Asia and Europe, investing in deep tech companies accelerating the transition to a zero-carbon economy. Zarmeen also currently is the Oceania Regional representative for the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) playing the “market builder’ role driving educational programs on leading best practices within the impact investing industry to the institutional investor market, specifically for Pension funds and Foundations. She serves on a variety of fiduciary and non-fiduciary boards including being a Non-Executive Director of U Ethical Investors Ltd ($1.5B ethical, ESG Fund manager), is a member of the Investment Committee and Chair of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee of U Ethical; Chair of the Ethical and Impact committee for the $100m Apostle Funds Management- People and Planet Fund and sits on various start-up advisory committees.

Zarmeen is an established investment management executive with a multi-dimensional background, spanning across 26years experience within the areas of ethical and impact investing, venture capital, hedge funds management, product development and commercialisation. In her prior roles, she has held several senior executive leadership positions at AECOM International Development, Pengana Capital and MIR Investment Management, playing the various roles including Fund Manager, COO, Head of Product Development, Head of Offshore institutional business, and Executive Director of Strategy Implementation. She further brings a unique international development perspective gained from her experience when she was the Fund Manager, overseeing the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s (DFAT) $20m Impact Innovation Accelerator Fund, which supported the start-up ecosystem in SE Asia, using a gender lens investing approach and was DFAT’s senior technical impact investing advisor for various global programs and initiatives.

She is an active mentor to emerging female leaders, is a Climate JEDI advocate and is a public speaker at numerous conferences and investor events. She is a qualified Australian Chartered Accountant and has a Bachelor of Commerce (sub major Law) degree from University of Western Sydney and is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.