The Global Investment Foundation was launched in Geneva in November 2022 with the mission of encouraging innovative developments in the private investments sector and reinforcing Geneva’s position as an investment banking hub.

The annual Global Investment Forum, launched as a stand alone event in 2015, brings together leaders, thinkers, entrepreneurs to discuss the future of investments as well as global challenges & opportunities.

Past speakers of the Forum have included former U.S. Presidential candidate John Kerry, former French President François Hollande, former Vice-President of the European Commission Viviane Reding, Carlyle Group Co-Founders David Rubenstein and William E. Conway Jr., Solar Impulse Chaiman Bertrand Piccard, Colombian politician and activist Ingrid Betancourt, Uber Co-Founder Garrett Camp, France’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs Dominique de Villepin, Economic and Social theorist Jeremy Rifkin, Greece’s former Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis, Checkout Founder and CEO Guillaume Pousaz, Global Ventures Managing Partner Noor Sweid, Index Ventures Founding Partner Neil Rimer, Lime CEO Wayne Ting.

We foster a community of private investors, financial institutions, entrepreneurs, politicians, international organisations, and academia, committed to improving the state of the world by accelerating the transition to a sustainable economy through impact driven allocation of assets.