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Shami Nissan
With over 24 years’ experience in sustainability, Shami leads Actis’ approach to sustainability and impact, working closely with investment colleagues and company management to assess and manage sustainability issues, helping to build world-class businesses and to deliver measurable societal benefits. Shami reports to Torbjorn Caesar, Senior Partner. Shami chairs many of the Sustainability Committees across the Actis Portfolio, chaired the Actis Net Zero Steering Committee and leads Actis efforts on DEI agenda in the portfolio. She is an Advisory Board member of the Impact Principles, and served as an Advisory Panel Member of the G7 Impact Taskforce. Before joining Actis in 2014, she was a senior consultant at PwC’s Sustainability and Climate Change team for ten years. Shami has also worked with the United Nations Development Programme in Central America.
Shami holds an MSc Environmental Technology, with Distinction, from Imperial College London and a BSc Biological Sciences from University of Durham.
Actis
Actis is a leading growth market investor in sustainable infrastructure. Actis invests in structural themes that aim to support long-term, equitable growth in defensive, critical infrastructure across energy transition, digitalisation transition, and supply chain transformation.
Actis believes that the firm’s decades of global experience, operational know-how and strong culture allow it to create global sustainability leaders at scale. Actis is a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), an investor initiative supported by the United Nations.
In October 2024, Actis joined forces with General Atlantic, a leading global growth investor, creating a diversified, global investment platform, together we have approximately $108 billion in combined assets under management. Actis operates as General Atlantic’s sustainable infrastructure business. This strategic combination further enhances Actis’ focus as a leader in global sustainable infrastructure.
You can learn more about Actis at www.act.is