Norfund
Nikolai Johns serves as the Investment Director at Norfund since 2018, focusing on managing investments in scalable enterprises within the manufacturing and food&agri sectors in developing countries. Previously, Johns held significant leadership positions, including a Board Member role at Norske Skog from April 2022 to April 2023, a Founding Partner at Cloudberry Clean Energy from September 2017 to September 2018, and Chairman of the Board at Nussir ASA and Tinfos AS from 2011 to 2018. Other notable positions include CEO of Monial AS and Executive Director at Eramet and Tinfos Group. Johns holds a degree from BI Norwegian Business School, obtained between 1983 and 1987.
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Norfund - The Norwegian Investment Fund for Developing Countries, is owned by the Norwegian Government and serves as an instrument in Norwegian development policy. Norfund contributes to poverty reduction and economic development in the poorest countries through investments in profitable businesses and transfer of knowledge and technology. Norfund invests equity and/or debt capital, always as a financial minority together with partners, international or Norwegian. The main sector for investment is clean energy. Norfund is Norway's biggest investor in microfinance through the Norwegian Microfinance Initiative (NMI), and is also a prominent investor in small and medium sized businesses through regional funds and direct investments. Norfund's geographical focus is on Sub-Sahara Africa, where the fund has three regional offices (Nairobi, Cape Town and Accra). In addition, Norfund invests in selected countries in Asia and Latin America, with regional offices in Costa Rica and Bangkok. Norfund seeks to hire local staff in the regions, and 15 nationalities are represented among the staff.