Sprekers bij Seminar ‘Europe’s Future at Stake: Investing in Energy Security, Defence & Digital Leadership’

Barbara Baarsma is Chief Economist of PwC Netherlands and in this role, heads PwC's chief economist office. Since 2009, she has been a Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Amsterdam. In addition, she holds various other societal positions. She is the chair of the Bank Council of the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) and a member of the Dutch Committee for Entrepreneurship. Before joining PwC, Baarsma worked, among others, at Rabobank.

Evalinde Eelens currently serves as an executive board member of the industrywide Dutch pension fund for the private security sector and as a board member of the pension fund for architects in the Netherlands. She also holds supervisory board positions with the Robeco corporate pension scheme and the PMT industrywide pension fund. In these capacities, she plays a key role in asset management and investment governance. Previously, Eelens worked as an investment strategist, advising a range of Dutch and international pension schemes. Beyond the pension industry, she is a director of the Eugene Kingman Collection LLC. Eelens earned her MBA in Sustainable Business in the Global Economy (Cum Laude) from the Maastricht School of Management.

Jamie Milne joined Schroders Greencoat in 2017 and is responsible for Greencoat's private markets investor relations and fund-raising activities. Prior to joining Schroders Greencoat, Milne worked at BlackRock in the Institutional Client Business, where he was part of the strategic clients team managing institutional relationships an focused new client development. He started his investment management career at JP Morgan Asset Management in 2013.

Laure Wessemius-Chibrac has been committed for many years to shaping the impact investing ecosystem and is Managing Director of the NAB, the industry association of impact investors in the Netherlands. Previously, she was Head of Investments at Cordaid, an international NGO and impact investor, and worked as an investment banker at BNP Paribas and ABN AMRO Rothschild.

Rinke Zonneveld is CEO at Invest-nl. He is a highly experienced public entrepreneur. He prefers to operate at the intersection of the public and private sectors, with strong links to the financial sector and knowledge institutions. He had a long career at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, where he served, among other roles, as Director of Industrial Policy AI and Director of Entrepreneurship. He subsequently became the founding director of InnovationQuarter, the regional development agency for South Holland. Over the past ten years, he has been ultimately responsible for more than one hundred investments in young innovative companies.

Maguire joined Schroders Greencoat in January 2026 from Impax Asset Management where he was Managing Director, Co-Head of the Transaction team in the Impax Private Markets business. The Impax Private Markets business was pursuing a value-add strategy within the energy transition space with a focus on acquiring and partnering with energy transition platforms. During his five years at Impax, the team which Maguire co-led made investments in ten European countries as well as the US across wind, solar, storage, hydro, decentralised generation and EV charging. Maguire has been working in the renewables industry since 2007. Prior to joining Impax Maguire worked at Statkraft for two years where he led a team tasked with sourcing and executing project and platform M&A opportunities across onshore wind, solar, storage and EV in Europe. Maguire is a qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG Dublin. He began his career in renewables at Airtricity before joining Element Power in 2010, a private equity backed pan-European renewable developer which was acquired by Statkraft in 2018. Maguire holds a BA in Economics from Trinity College Dublin.

Tom Green joined HSBC Asset Management in 2019 and is the portfolio manager for HSBC AM’s Direct Lending Strategies. He chairs the Direct Lending Investment Committee and also sits on the investment committee for Infrastructure Debt. Prior to joining HSBC Asset Management, Green spent 16 years with HSBC Bank within its mid-market leveraged finance business. Green graduated from Durham University with a BSc Hons in Geography and also holds a BA Hons from UMIST in Banking & Finance.