Isabelle Scemama
Global Head, AXA IM Alt
Isabelle Scemama is Global Head of AXA IM Alts. She oversees AXA IM’s 185€bn+ alternative business unit, AXA IM Alts, which employs over 800 people located in 17 offices, serving the needs of more than 600 clients globally. She leads the definition and execution of AXA IM Alts global strategy as well as in the supervision of its day-to-day management. She also sits on AXA IM – Real Estate and Infrastructure Investment Committees and chairs the AXA IM Alts Management Board. She joined AXA IM - Real Assets in 2001 to develop the third-party business. Notably, she launched the CRE and infrastructure debt lending platforms in 2005 and 2013 respectively, now firmly established as global leaders, before taking responsibility of the full fund management activity of AXA IM- Real Assets. She was later appointed CEO of AXA IM – Real Assets in 2017, a role to which was added the responsibility of the overall alternatives’ asset management activity of AXA IM, as Global Head of AXA IM Alts in 2020. Scemama has more than 32 years of experience in the alternatives asset management industry, out of which 21 years within AXA IM. She previously held various positions in corporate and real estate financing at Paribas. She graduated from IEP Paris (Sciences Po) with a degree in Political Science in 1989.