Anna Väänänen

Anna Väänänen is the Head of Listed Impact Equity at AXA IM and co-manages the AXA ACT People & Planet Equity, AXA WF ACT Clean Economy, AXA ACT Framlington Clean Economy, AXA WF ACT Biodiversity and AXA ACT WF Social Progress strategies together with Tom Atkinson, Ashley Keet and Anne Tolmunen. She specialises on agriculture, food, and automation. Anna joined AXA IM in 2023 from Mirova, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, heading the Mirova's Global Environmental team and managing various global sustainable and impact strategies including Global Environmental and Future of Food. Preceding that she was a senior portfolio manager at Credit Suisse Asset Management in Zurich managing different thematic equity strategies in both developed and emerging markets. Prior to this she was a fund manager at FIM Asset Management and at Tapiola Asset Management. She started her career in 1995 investment banking working as a sell side analyst at Salomon Brothers and Carnegie Investment Bank. Anna holds a Master of Social Science from the University of Helsinki, majoring in Economics.