Leandros Kalisperas
Chief investment officer of the British Business Bank.
Leandros Kalisperas brings experience managing pension and institutional portfolios to the British Business Bank’s investment leadership. His career spans the West Yorkshire Pension Fund, abrdn and the Universities Superannuation Scheme.
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Leandros Kalisperas is the British Business Bank’s chief investment officer. His background combines public-market and private-market investing with the management of institutional portfolios. Before joining the bank, he led investment at the West Yorkshire Pension Fund, covering listed assets, private investments and alternative strategies. [British Business Bank biography](https://www.british-business-bank.co.uk/about/who-we-are/our-people/leandros-kalisperas).
At abrdn, he headed portfolio solutions, working on asset allocation, implementation and portfolio management for institutional clients. He also spent six years in senior investment roles at the Universities Superannuation Scheme, helping develop its regulated investment office. Earlier work included investment banking, boutique asset management and running a small business. Kalisperas studied politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford and holds an MBA from INSEAD. That combination of portfolio management and commercial experience defines his professional background.
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