Petar Tsenkulovski

My experience stems from the areas of Sustainable Finance, Climate-Smart Agriculture Impact Investing, Sustainable Value Chains, ESG and Corporate Social Responsibility. In 2011 I co-founded T Coop Impact Venture, an advisory firm with a think-do tank mentality to unlock the potential of impact investing in Central and Eastern Europe including new players and finance models. I am also leading the set-up of the Green Impact series, founded by British next-gens collaborating to support early-stage financing of climate-smart businesses including in climate-neutral building and food production. In the last years I have been working with several impact investing mandates for deal flow development with concluded projects structuring and effective investing. The latest one was for the Experience Corporation and Johnson and Johnson and the investing in a group of smallholder farmers. In 2018 I have managed the development of a market assessment about Impact Investing in Climate-Smart Agriculture including Agroforestry, different arrangements with standing forest, smallholder farmers’ engagement and agroecology. The current pro-bono activities include being a board member of Coop a research center for impact measurement methods and social impact bonds; and the mentoring for a project for gender empowerment of students from disadvantaged backgrounds in the context of suburban organic farm conservation. In the last ten years, I have developed and managed projects in the areas of public value creation and business model innovation in the area of sustainable food chains integration. From 2009 to 2017 I worked on the establishment and managed the Coop Austria, Bulgaria. The main responsibilities included building a network of regional collaboration, development of research and consulting projects, fund raising, executive education. For over ten years I was responsible for Marketing and Brand Management. Before that I worked in the areas of Marketing and Communications in the companies: Elsevier, J&J, DPD Global Services, etc. Teaching and academic research activities in impact investing. Member of the Nature of Business Alumni cohort and the berlin School of Creative leadership. Partnership with the Nike Sustainability Strategy, Unilever Sustainability Strategy and Nestle Sustainability Strategy. Associated Researcher for Life Plus, Interreg and Horizon for Evroconsult. Master of Science in Environmental Economics and Climate Change at the London School of Economics and Political Science.