Heather Langsner is Vice President and leads the Impact Team at YvesBlue. She is an experienced buy-side analyst and portfolio manager specializing in the Industrials, Chemicals, Technology, Energy and Renewables/Cleantech Sectors and holds a Master’s Degree in Environmental Sciences with a major in Industrial Engineering from Columbia University. In 2015, timed with the signing of the Paris Climate Accord, she launched the first net zero emissions equity portfolio called Carbon Zero for Groupe La Française in Paris. In 2017 she launched the Carbon Resiliency Technology Impact Fund which has an average outperformance of 14.6% per year since inception. She has been a technical and sustainability consultant for governments in the Middle East and for companies like Lenovo and Biogen. She studied Chemistry with a focus on Environmental Sciences at Johns Hopkins University and has been a speaker at the National Academy of Sciences, The American Chemicals Society and the United Nations Environment Program’s Conferences on Banking and Water. She serves as Vice Chair of the Center for the Economic and Environmental Partnership.