Paola D’Angelo is managing director of the SPTF European office in Luxembourg that opened in 2019 with support of the Luxembourg government. The European office manages SPTF’s investor group coordination and outreach to regulators and financial market supervisory agencies. Paola also leads the SPTF’s efforts to connect to the global standard setting, regulatory and taxonomy initiatives, such as ISO, OECD, and the European Commission Platform for Sustainable Finance to share the financial inclusion sector’s achievements and experience with the broader financial sector.

Paola has lived in Luxembourg for 25 years. Having started her career with depositary banks providing financial services to investment funds, Paola shifted her focus to development and impact finance in 2010 when she studied at the Boulder Institute of Microfinance. Since 2012 she has been working as consultant to blended finance impact investment funds promoted by the major development finance institutions and private institutional impact investors.

Paola is member of the board of impact finance investment funds and is certified INSEAD Independent Director. A native Italian speaker, Paola is also fluent in English and French and has working knowledge of German.