Yvonne Bakkum is an independent advisor, interim manager and board member focused on boosting the positive impact of capital. Since 2022 Yvonne chairs the Netherlands Advisory Board on impact investing. She is Chair of the Supervisory Board of Incofin Investment Management and holds several other supervisory and advisory positions, among others as a member of the Impact Investment Committee of Achmea Investment Management and the Investment Committee of Impact First Group for place-based impact funds in Rotterdam, The Hague and Amsterdam. Since late 2025, she has been involved in setting up Investing for Peace – a peace-positive investment initiative focused on fragile and conflict-affected states in Africa.
In 2022 and 2023 Yvonne was listed in the Netherlands top 50 ‘Women in Sustainable Finance’. She was founding MD of FMO Investment Management BV, mobilizing private capital at scale for the SDGs. Yvonne worked at FMO for 22 years and held various other positions including Director Private Equity, Manager Credit Analysis and Manager Business Development. Earlier she worked at ABN AMRO Bank. She holds a master’s degree in business economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.