ISFC was founded in spring 2020 to plug a knowledge and capacity gap on sustainable finance topics in Central and Eastern Europe, with the view to expand to Southern Europe and Western Balkans.

Our team combines private and public sector expertise in finance, policy, applied research, and stakeholder engagement. We are a small, creative team with International experience and a passion for sustainable finance.

We help financial institutions, investors, and policymakers to integrate sustainability into strategy and practice, making it less abstract — so that institutions can leverage financial, human, and environmental capital for maximum wellbeing and prosperity.

Bursting sustainable finance out of its bubble

We work with partner institutions and networks to bring sustainable finance perspectives into discussions about policies or sectors that are seen by many as unrelated to sustainable finance: security and defence, industrial transformation, energy transition, clean tech scaling, and many other siloed topics.

We bring new ways of looking at problems and potential solutions. Our aim is to disrupt policy and practice groupthink, or outdated and simplistic patterns of thinking. We foster interdisciplinary knowledge exchange to improve cross-issue and cross-sectoral networks of trust in order to drive better outcomes.