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Lisa Genasci

Lisa Genasci

Managing Director, Sustainable Finance, ADM CAPITAL, Singapore

Lisa Genasci is Managing Director, Sustainable Finance at ADM Capital, where she leads the firm’s ESG Committee and sits on the Investment Advisory Committee. She also co-leads the firm’s first impact fund, the Asia Climate Smart Landscape Fund for Indonesia. The private debt fund launched in December 2023 to provide capital to SMEs in the agricultural commodity sector, with targets set in emissions reduction, better land use management, improved livelihoods and gender. Lisa is also an ESG advisor to ADMC’s London-based Cibus private equity funds, which invest in sustainable food and farming and Agricultural technology. 

Lisa founded and for 15 years led the ADM Capital Foundation (ADMCF), an innovative philanthropic vehicle established to support critical research and impact-driven approaches to promoting environmental conservation in Asia. ADMCF has been recognised for its research-led solutions to some of our most intransigent challenges: Our depleting oceans, the nexus between forestry and development, air quality and public health, the intersections among food, energy and water.

Lisa holds a BA degree with High Honors from Smith College and an LLM in Human Rights Law from Hong Kong University.
 

A director of the Hong Kong-based Civic Exchange, Lisa is an advisor to the Washington DC-based Ocean Foundation, on the Tropical Forest Alliance SE Asia Advisory Board and is an advisor to the R Collective, a London-based sustainable textile and clothing brand. She is a member of the UNDP SDG Impact Steering Group.

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