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Eric Cooperström

Director of Asset Management, The Nature Conservancy

Biography

Eric is a Principal on the Innovation Investment team at the Skoll Foundation, where he works with Skoll social entrepreneurs and other partners to scale proven innovative approaches in order to accelerate impact on the world’s most pressing problems.

Eric has spent his career working with entrepreneurs and developing innovative financial solutions in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. Prior to joining Skoll, Eric was an Associate with D. Capital Partners, the London-based impact investment advisory arm of the Dalberg Group.Before his time with D. Capital, Eric was a Vice President with Capital Dynamics, a private asset manager, where he led private equity fund investments in France and Spain and developed a fund-of-funds targeting frontier and emerging markets managers. Prior to this, Eric was a Financial Analyst in the Private Placement team with investment bank Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin in New York. He also founded and managed the Posterus Foundation, a non-profit engaged in funding education infrastructure in emerging communities around the world.

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