Karine Hirn

Based in Hong Kong
At East Capital Group since 1997 / In the industry since 1994

Karine Hirn is a partner and co-founder of East Capital Group. Born in France and based in Hong Kong since 2013. She is the Chief Sustainability Officer for the East Capital Group and Chairperson of the Luxembourg-domiciled management company and fund structures. Previously, Karine was Chief Representative in China, based in Shanghai and served as CEO of East Capital in Sweden.

Karine is a French Trade Advisor and an honorary member of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. She also serves as independent non-executive director (INED) at Lion Finance Group and as an advisor to the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University in Boston. Karine is frequently invited as a commentator at international conferences and in the media, focusing on topics related to emerging markets and sustainable investing.

Before East Capital, she worked in Russia, in the banking industry and as a financial consultant in Nizhny-Novgorod and Moscow.

She holds an MSc in Management from EM Lyon, a Post Graduate Degree in Eastern European Studies from Sciences Po Paris. She also studied at the Moscow Academy of Finance and the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki. She speaks French, English, Swedish, Russian and is conversational in Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.