Wim Vermeir is Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director at AG Insurance. Vermeir started his career at the University of Ghent and Vlerick School of Management as research assistant in corporate finance. In 1996, he launched two SRI funds that were the origin of the SRI activity of Dexia AM (now Candriam) and was also member of the executive committee and the board of Ausbil, Dexia AM‘s Australian equity boutique. He held different positions between 1995 and 2006 at Dexia Asset Management and was, amongst others, equity manager, head of socially responsible investing, head of global balanced management and head of equity. In 2006, he was appointed Chief Investment Officer for Traditional Investments and member of the executive committee at Dexia Asset Management. Since June 2012, he is also Group Head of Investments for Ageas. In 2019, he became President of the Financial Committee of the King Bauduin Foundation. Vermeir holds a civil engineer degree in physics (University of Ghent) and an MBA (Vlerick School of Management). He published about venture capital and about SRI and is Guest Lecturer at the Solvay Business School & Vlerick Business School.