Isabelle Scemama
Global Head, AXA IM Alts
Isabelle Scemama is Global Head, AXA IM Alts, AXA IM’s 185€bn+ alternative business unit, which employs over 800 people located in 17 offices with over 600 clients globally. She also sits on AXA IM – Real Estate and Infrastructure investment committees and chairs AXA IM Alts's management board. She joined AXA IM - Real Assets in 2001 to develop its third-party business. Notably, she launched the CRE and infrastructure debt lending platforms in 2005 and 2013 respectively, 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 which came to include as Global Head of AXA IM Alts in 2020 overall responsibility of AXA IM's alternatives asset management activity. Scemama has more than 32 years' experience in alternatives asset management, 21 of which 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.
