Michael Hoelter, DWS: “We will raise capital as early as 2022 for our renewable energy vehicle

Kamran Khan, a former vice president of programmes at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, is managing director and head of ESG for Deutsche Bank’s Asia-Pacific region, a position created in 2020. He will be responsible for links with the Green Climate Fund, the first investor ($80 million) in the new fund. Michael Hoelter is senior principal investment at DWS, the former integrated asset management arm of Deutsche Bank (which owns 79.49%) and Germany’s largest asset manager ($880 billion under management). He leads the renewable investments at DWS, which has pledged to contribute 3% to the new fund and will manage it.

Africa Business+ interviewed them on the role of the new fund and asset managers in the energy transition, and on the relationship between the private sector and public institutions.