Filippa Bergin

Former IIED trustee

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Filippa Bergin founded the analysis and investment company Invest in Change in 2011 after more than 15 years of experience of practical sustainability work. Invest in Change analyses, invests in and provides investment advice to companies with a sustainable business model.

Filippa Bergin founded the analysis and investment company Invest in Change in 2011 after more than 15 years of experience of practical sustainability work. Invest in Change analyses, invests in and provides investment advice to companies with a sustainable business model.

Filippa is a mentor within the accelerator programme at SHIFT-Stockholm Resilience Center mentoring social-ecological entrepreneurs in the Baltic Region. She is a jury member at Swedbank, nominating the most sustainble fast growing entreprise in Sweden yearly and a board member in the Swedish chapter of the Toniic impact investment network.

Immediately prior to founding Invest in Change she was the sustainability manager in Axstores AB, a retail chain meeting 120 million customers per year. Parallel to this she was an independent advisor and consultant regarding sustainability and human rights to large Swedish listed companies in diverse sectors, for example financial institutions and utilities companies, as well as to the Global Reporting Initiative.

Filippa has several years of experience in development and human rights organisations, such as with the World Health Organisation and Amnesty International, where she headed the Swedish Amnesty Business Group. She was also a member of the Global Reporting Initiative Stakeholder Council. She started off her career with a rights perspective to health at the the Division of Global Health in the Karolinska Institute,. 

She holds an an LLM from Uppsala University (University of Leiden and Vietnam) and has studied at the Johns Hopkins University, the Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna Campus. She is a Swedish national fluent in Swedish, English and French.