Thiresia (Teresa) Farmaki holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Athens, Greece and an MBA from Columbia Business School, United States. She has over 20 years’ experience in finance and private equity investments with particular specialization on infrastructure and sustainability. From 2004 to 2007, Ms. Farmaki was an associate director at UBS Investment Bank in New York (Global Utilities and Renewable Energy group) and London (M&A group). From 2007 to 2011, she acted as Chief Investment Officer at Piraeus Equity Advisors, the private equity arm of Piraeus Bank Group, during which time she co-led the establishment of the private equity group and launched three private equity and venture capital funds, among others. Ms. Farmaki was a managing director and head of private equity at Signia Wealth, a multi-family office (from 2013 to 2016) and in 2015 she co-founded Astarte Capital Partners LLP (Astarte) in London, UK, an asset management firm focused on infrastructure, natural capital and real estate managing capital for institutional investors globally. Since 2015 Ms. Farmaki has been the managing partner and a member of the Investment Committee at Astarte overseeing the investments, where she structured and launched, among others, a UK real estate platform focused on large urban regeneration projects in London with significant social engagement and a Latin American impact forestry fund with leading role in carbon credits and nature-based solutions and is a member of the Investment Committee of both. Ms. Farmaki was a speaker at COP26 and COP28 and has been awarded as top 100 women of influence by Financial News for two years in row in 2022 and 2023.