Sasja Beslik
Sasja Beslik is a Swedish and international financial expert known for promoting financial sustainability
across the world. In 2004, he landed his first bank job as Head of Responsible Investments and later as
deputy CEO at Banco Funds/ABN AMRO branch in Stockholm.
His work for Nordea started in 2009, when he became head of responsible investments and corporate
governance. He was named CEO of Nordea Investment Funds Sweden in 2011 and head of responsible
investments and identity at Nordea Asset Management in 2013. Finally, at the beginning of 2017, Nordea
placed Beslik at the head of a new unit, Sustainable Finance, tasked with implementing the decisions made by the company’s corporate responsibility unit.
He is the author of the books “Where the Money Tree Grows” (2021) and “Guld och gröna skogar” (2019)
and the weekly newsletter “ESG on a Sunday”. In 2019, he left Nordea to join Bank J. Safra Sarasin.
In 2021 he joined biggest Danish commercial Pension Company PFA as Head of Sustainability.
Beslik won the Swedish Banking Profile of the Year award in 2016.
In 2013, he received the H. M. The King’s Medal, 8th size with the ribbon of the Order of the Seraphim
from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden for outstanding contributions within Swedish environmental and
sustainability theory.
He was chosen as a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos in 2011
Stars Fund, the Nordea sustainable fund launched by Beslik in 2011, was chosen as Sweden’s best overall
equity fund in 2017. It was the first sustainable fund to receive the award.
In 2020, Beslik was ranked the world’s most influential person within green finance.