Kristen Weldon is a managing director and global head of sustainable investing for BlackRock Alternative Investors, responsible for instilling the firm’s sustainable investing strategy across its real estate, infrastructure, hedge funds, private equity, and credit businesses. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2021, she was global head of ESG and impact investing at Partners Capital. Before this, Weldon was head of food innovation and downstream strategy at Louis Dreyfus Company, where she launched Louis Dreyfus Ventures, a sustainability-focused fund-management group from which she led the company’s investment activities in the ag-tech and food technology industries. Weldon previously spent 13 years at Blackstone, where she was a senior managing director and co-head of the London office for Hedge Fund Solutions. She started her career at JPMorgan.
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