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Advocacy with Belgian policy makers, public actors and regulatory bodies. IFB creates transparency, initiates applied research and opens access to knowledge and experience.
About us
Finance as a force for good.
Impact Finance Belgium is a membership organisation representing a network of 65 members, spanning around 75% of the Belgian financial sector, committed to mobilising more impact finance to transform our society. As a platform, IFB is where pioneers and major players meet, collaborate and develop impact and sustainable investing strategies.
Who we are · a network for impact
Impact Finance Belgium (IFB) is the place where all financial players, from impact-finance pioneers to major institutions, come together. We represent a network of 65 members, spanning around 75% of the Belgian financial sector, and we pursue a structural change of the financial system: one in which impact, alongside risk and return, is an integral and equal criterion in every financial decision.
Today, IFB members account for 14% of all assets under management in Belgium deployed for positive impact, an estimated EUR 113 to 138 billion. By 2030, our goal is to raise the share of positive-impact investment to 30% of all assets under management in Belgium.
What we do · build, support, represent, inspire
- +Build bridges between investors, entrepreneurs and policymakers, so enterprises working towards a more inclusive and ecological society are financed in the right way.
- +Support the growth of the impact finance sector.
- +Represent the community to policymakers, media and society at large.
- +Inspire and share knowledge and data through research, events such as the Belgian Impact Week, and capacity building.
- +Be visible to, and speak for, every actor across the Belgian impact finance ecosystem.
Watch · what is Impact Finance Belgium?
Beliefs · finance as a force for good
Finance can and should deliver for people and planet.
Financiers should take up their responsibility alongside businesses, social purpose organisations, citizens and governments.
Addressing the societal challenges of our times requires a wide range of investors, capital providers and funders: from engaged grant-makers to impact investors, and from private players to public actors.
Impact finance must go beyond intentions. Generating and demonstrating positive, measurable social and environmental impact is crucial.
Impact model · enable, inspire, connect, catalyse
Inspire
Awareness creation and communication with investors, capital providers and funders on their impact journey.
Connect
Linking peers, sharing best practices and creating access across silos to the broader Belgian impact finance space.
Catalyse
Exploring novel financial instruments and pioneering programmes that can boost the impact finance space.
Our ambition
To embed impact, alongside risk and return, as an equal criterion in every financial decision.
Our goal
By 2030, IFB envisions 30% of all investments in Belgium directed towards positive impact.
Where we stand · our international position
IFB is the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG Impact) representative for Belgium and a member of the European Impact Investing Consortium. IFB has also joined Eurosif, the European Sustainable Investment Forum, as an observer.
People
Board, advisory committee and team.
The people who govern, advise and run Impact Finance Belgium.
Board · Our Board of Directors steers IFB's strategy and governance.
Steven Serneels
Steven is a serial entrepreneur and impact investor, focused on the sweet spot where social, business and financial actors meet. He co-founded and chairs Impact Finance Belgium, chairs the social impact fund Kampani, sits on the board of GSG Impact, and was previously chair and CEO of Impact Europe.
Piet Colruyt
Piet studied philosophy, civil engineering, architecture and corporate finance before becoming an investor and board member in many impact organisations across retail, real estate, renewable energy and the future of the economy. He is a long-standing promotor of social entrepreneurship and impact finance in Belgium.
Aline Buysschaert
Aline is a Senior Investment Officer at the European Investment Bank, working in impact and blended finance. She began her impact finance career at KOIS, structuring innovative finance instruments that channel private capital toward the SDGs, following earlier work at Ashoka, the European Commission and an impact business incubator in Johannesburg.
Audrey Hanard
Audrey is an Associate Partner at Dalberg, a mission-driven strategy advisory firm, and Chair of the Board of bpost. She works with NGOs, UN agencies, governments and foundations to improve education, employment and health outcomes globally, and previously worked at Telos Impact and McKinsey.
Celine Vaessen
Céline is Vice-Chair of Impact Finance Belgium and Chief Investment Officer at SFPI-FPIM, Belgium's federal holding and investment company, where she also lectures in impact investing at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management. She has been part of SFPI-FPIM's investment team since 2010, previously as General Advisor, and began her finance career as a relationship manager at Calyon.
Hugo Lasat
Hugo is Chief Executive Officer of Argenta Asset Management, the Antwerp-based firm created in January 2026 through the merger of Arvestar and Argenta AM Lux. Over more than three decades in the sector, he served as group CEO of Degroof Petercam and chairman of DPAM, and earlier as Chief Investment Officer at Candriam.
Jérémie Leroy
Jérémie is a member of the executive team of the King Baudouin Foundation, one of Belgium's largest philanthropic foundations, where he is responsible for finance, investments, real estate, operations, digitalisation, philanthropy and heritage & culture. He was previously Financial Director of BOZAR, the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, following earlier work at the Dexia group.
Advisory · Our Advisory Committee brings expertise from across the impact finance ecosystem.
Christel Dumas
Christel is a Full Professor of Finance at ICHEC Brussels Management School, where her research explores how finance can serve society through sustainable and impact investing, ESG labels and corporate governance. She also advises Triodos Bank Belgium and KBC Asset Management.
Jan Alexander
Jan is Secretary-General of Private Capital Belgium, the federation representing the country's private equity and venture capital sector. He previously headed fund investments at PMV and spent over a decade in private equity legal roles at KBC.
Joris Laenen
Joris is Chief Investment and Life Officer at Ethias, one of Belgium's largest insurers, where he oversees roughly 19 billion euros in assets. He joined Ethias in 2019 after roles at Belfius and Belfius Investment Partners.
Michel Vermaerke
Michel is an independent adviser and company director through his firm Alio Consilio, and the former CEO of Febelfin, the federation of the Belgian financial sector, which he led from 2005 to 2017.
Peter Sommen
Peter is Managing Director of OFP Prolocus, a Belgian occupational pension fund serving the staff of local and regional authorities, bringing an institutional investor's perspective to sustainable finance.
Philippe Lambrecht
Philippe is Chair of the Board of PYM, a Belgian community of conscious and impact investors, following a long finance career spanning private equity, M&A at Fortis, and development finance advising EDFI and BIO.
Tanguy Vanloqueren
Tanguy is an advisor at the Foundation for Future Generations, the Belgian foundation dedicated to sustainable development and a founding organisation of Impact Finance Belgium.
Thomas Van Craen
Thomas is Managing Director of Triodos Bank in Belgium, the values-based sustainable bank. He helped establish the Global Alliance for Banking on Values, PCAF and Solifin.
Tom Van den Berghe
Tom is Director of Sustainable Finance at Febelfin, the Belgian financial-sector federation, where he led the creation of the Towards Sustainability quality standard and label. His work spans sustainable lending, investing, ESG data and biodiversity.
Yvonne Bakkum
Yvonne chairs the Netherlands Advisory Board on impact investing and the Supervisory Board of Incofin Investment Management. She founded and led FMO Investment Management, mobilising private capital at scale for the Sustainable Development Goals.
Nicolas Crochet
Nicolas is Co-CEO of Funds For Good, the Belgian impact investment firm he co-founded in 2011, which channels half its profits into interest-free loans and support for social entrepreneurs across Europe.
Ophélie Mortier
Ophélie is Chief Sustainable Investment Officer at DPAM (Degroof Petercam Asset Management), where she leads the firm's responsible-investment strategy and ESG integration. She has shaped DPAM's sustainability approach since joining the group in 2005.
Team · The people who run Impact Finance Belgium day to day.
Pierre Harkay
Pierre is a leader in Belgian impact and sustainable finance, working where policy, finance and sustainability meet. As CEO of Impact Finance Belgium, and previously Head of the Development and Sustainability Unit at BIO Invest, he has spent his career aligning financial systems with global sustainability goals; he also holds board positions at Credendo and SFPI-FPIM.
Solène Collin
Solène holds a master in finance with experience in sustainable finance across Belgium and Luxembourg, including work with an asset manager and on ESG and impact labels for financial products. She believes sustainable and impact finance can create positive change for people and planet.
Wendy Braeken
Wendy is an expert in evaluation and impact assessment, a certified coach and an accredited SROI practitioner. At the Shaping Impact Group she guides impact enterprises in measuring and monetising their social impact, and she co-created the Impact Mentoring track of Efiko Academy.
Frédéric Madry
Frédéric is a social entrepreneur and environmental engineer working for an inclusive, regenerative economy. He founded Unoya to support investors and organisations that put impact at the centre of their strategy, and previously founded PowerCorner (solar mini-grids in Africa) and contributed to ENGIE's corporate impact fund. At IFB he focuses on sustainable bonds and the role of institutional investors in a just transition.
Lynn Nicholson
Lynn brings 15+ years of experience in communications, marketing and investor relations to her role at IFB, where she leads communications strategy and community engagement. She previously held leadership roles in financial services and impact investing, including Chief Communications Officer at GSG Impact.
