BNP Paribas Wealth Management has hired a former Credit Suisse executive to lead its sustainable investment efforts in Asia.

Eleonore Dachicourt joins BNP Paribas Wealth Management as its head of sustainable and responsible investment, Asia, according to a statement, effective immediately. 

Based in Singapore, Dachicourt will be tasked with expanding the French private bank’s sustainable investment offering and driving client uptake in the region.

Dachicourt has 20 years of wealth and asset management experience, most recently with Credit Suisse where she its head of sustainable client solutions, responsible for implementing the bank’s «Sustainability Investment Strategy».

«Sustainability is strategically important for BNP Paribas Wealth Management, and an integral part of the advisory and discretionary services we offer to our clients,» said BNP Paribas Wealth Management’s Asia head of investment services Garth Bregman. «We see that clients increasingly want to understand our sustainable investments offering and integrate sustainability into their own investments.»