Silva Deželan (Past Speaker)

As a Sustainability Director at Robeco Private Equity Silva Deželan is responsible for ESG integration and the implementation of ESG engagement activities across different private equity programs. Before joining Robeco Private Equity, she worked as a Senior Program Manager at Rabobank Sustainability where she was in charge of the group-wide Responsible Investing Program. Prior to that she worked as a fund analyst at Rabobank Private Banking and as a sustainability analyst at the Institute for Investment Services Research (IRIS). Until 2007, she was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Amsterdam.

Silva is a member of the PRI Private Equity Advisory Committee, Invest Europe’s Responsible Investment Roundtable and the Dutch Private Equity Association’s ESG Committee.