Narina Mnatsakanian is Partner and Chief Impact Officer at Regeneration.VC, where she is leading the firm’s impact and ESG strategy and collaborating with portfolio companies on impact measurement and management. Narina will also contribute to Regeneration.VC’s European growth, including fundraising, sourcing, due diligence, and ecosystem building.
With nearly two decades of senior leadership experience in sustainable and impact investing, Narina has pioneered initiatives across global organizations such as the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and UN-backed PRI, advancing best practices in responsible investment, building investor networks around the world and growing PRI signatory base. Her career includes senior roles at MN, Sarona Asset Management. In 2017, Narina joined Van Lanschot Kempen, where she led the sustainable and impact investing team. She provided strategic advice to institutional fund clients, addressing a broad spectrum of sustainability topics, including climate change, biodiversity, human rights, and impact investing. Narina launched and was portfolio manager of Global Impact Pool, multi-asset impact fund of funds for nearly six years. Narina invested in impact funds in private equity, venture capital, private debt, infrastructure and has a lot of experience with impact measurement and reporting across asset classes. Narina was also on the investment committee of the SDG Farmland Fund. In her last role at UBS Asset Management, as Head of Impact Investing, Narina built partnerships with organizations like SDI Asset Owner Platform and The Nature Conservancy, while advancing and building innovative impact strategies.
Narina has been recognized among the Top 50 Women in Dutch Sustainable Finance (2021, 2022), and received numerous prestigious awards for her work in the past, including the ICGN Stewardship Disclosure Award, the Responsible Investor Award, the Pensions for Purpose Award, and the Environmental Finance IMPACT Award. She is a sought-after speaker and serves on several advisory boards, including as a board member of the Dutch Nature Conservation Society.
Narina holds a BA(Hons) from Cambridge University in Law, Economics, and Resource Management and an MSc from Erasmus University Rotterdam in Financial Economics. She lives in Haarlem with her husband and three children.
