Gerhard is a senior expert in the field of private equity investments in emerging markets. His career focus, for the last 35 years, has been in impact investing, innovative finance, and private/public collaboration to build healthy new economies across emerging markets.

Most notably, Gerhard was the founder and CEO of Sarona Asset Management, a firm investing private equity and private debt in small and mid-market companies across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Under his guidance as current Board Chair, Sarona continues to invest on behalf of family and institutional investors, with a commitment to strong financial returns, while creating deep and lasting impact wherever it invests.

Gerhard is also a sought-after speaker on the topic of investing to solve the world’s greatest SDG challenges and building healthy new economies through public-private collaboration. In many speaking engagements at the United Nations and various UN agencies, he has sought to build bridges of trust between the public sector and private sector, believing passionately that the world needs an integrated public-private approach to address today’s SDG challenges.

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