Hyewon Kong

As sustainable investment director, Hyewon leads Gresham House’s sustainable investment team and strategy, driving environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts across the firm and its investment strategies.

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

Before joining Gresham House, Hyewon was head of responsible investing at the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO), where she spearheaded sustainable investment strategies and led ESG integration across public and private markets and all asset classes. Prior to this, she was assistant vice president and head of ESG at AGF Investments, managing approximately $600m through the firm’s global sustainable and impact investing strategies.

Hyewon has served on various boards and committees throughout her career, including as an investment committee member at The Atmospheric Fund (Ontario Government Province Endowment) and as an environmental finance advisory committee member at the University of Toronto.

Currently, she is a member of the board of directors at the University of British Columbia (UBC) investment management and lectures on environmental finance and sustainable & impact investment courses.

Hyewon 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.

She holds a Master of Science in environmental policy from the University of Oxford and is a CFA charterholder.