Inès Mertens leads Impact Europe’s impact investing market development, supporting impact funds and financial institutions in their impact journey. Impact Europe is the network of investors for impact. She is an impact investment professional with 20+ years-experience in impact investing and corporate finance. She worked for 8 years in the investing team at Inventures Investment Partners, European impact fund investing in early-stage companies. She co-founded the Belgian chapter of Level20 promoting diversity within the Private Equity industry and was board observer at Solifin, a Belgian impact network. She also served as mentor and jury member seats in several start-up awards.