Hyewon Kong is Director of Sustainable Investment at Gresham House, where she leads the firm’s sustainable investing strategies.

With over 20 years of global experience spanning Asia, Europe and North America, she has held senior executive roles in corporate and investment management, managing sustainable and impact investment portfolios and leading net zero and sustainability strategies.

Hyewon has served on various boards and committees, including as an Investment Committee member at The Atmospheric Fund (Government of Ontario Endowment) and on the Environmental Finance Advisory Committee at the University of Toronto. She lectures on environmental finance and sustainable and impact investment.

She was a member of the Canadian Taxonomy Technical Experts Group, appointed by the Sustainable Finance Action Council, contributing to the development of a Canadian Green and Transition Finance Taxonomy. She founded and chaired the Canadian Responsible Investment Working Group and was named as one of Canada’s Clean 50 leaders in 2020 for fostering collaboration within the financial industry to advance a sustainability agenda.

Hyewon holds a Master of Science in Environmental Policy from the University of Oxford and is a CFA charterholder.