PGGM Asset Management has appointed Gabriëlle Krapels as chief policy officer, effective from 1 July 2025.

Krapels joins from APG Asset Management, where she was the managing director of responsible investments fiduciary management.

Before that, Krapels worked in various other roles at the firm for about seven years.

Prior to her work there, she was a manager at the Netherlands Investment Institution (NLII) and a senior policy advisor at the Ministry of Economic Affairs.

In her new role at PGGM, Krapels will be responsible for the pension fund for healthcare and welfare (PFZW) strategic policy advice and investment strategy.

She will report to PGGM Investment Management chief executive officer, Geraldine Leegwater.

Leegwater said that Krapels' arrival meant the management team of PGGM's new asset management organisation was "complete."

"Gabriëlle brings valuable experience advising on the strategic investment policy of pension funds," she continued.

"In particular, her knowledge of integrating return, risk and sustainability in the investment policy is of added value for realising the joint strategy of PFZW and PGGM."

Krapels added that she was "very much" looking forward to starting at PGGM, stating: "I have come to know PGGM in recent years as a very competent organisation, and I am looking forward to contributing to shaping the new organisation in my new role and to committing myself to the pension fund participants of PFZW."

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