Olivia Wassenaar
Head of Sustainable Investing
Apollo Private Equity

Ms. Wassenaar is a Senior Partner at Apollo Private Equity and Co-Lead of Natural Resources. She serves on the boards of several Apollo portfolio companies, including FlexGen, LifePoint, Takkion, Tidewater, TOPS, and Spartan. Prior to joining Apollo, Ms. Wassenaar was a Managing Director at Riverstone Holdings, where she was a member of the investment team for ten years. Previously, Ms. Wassenaar worked at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Banking Division focusing on natural resources and in the Environment Department at The World Bank Group. Ms. Wassenaar also serves on the board of The Brearley School and The School of American Ballet. She received her AB, magna cum laude, from Harvard College, attended the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, and earned an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.