Karine Hirn is a co-Founder of East Capital Group. Established in Sweden in 1997, East Capital has expanded its reach from being a pioneer investor in Russia and Eastern Europe, and one of the largest investors in this region, to offering global emerging and frontier market strategies.
Born in France and currently based in Hong Kong, Karine is Chairperson of East Capital Asia Ltd. Karine has held several positions within East Capital Group, such as Chairperson of the Luxembourg-domiciled management company and fund structures, Chief Sustainability Officer, China Chief Representative in Shanghai and CEO of East Capital in Sweden. Karine is a French Trade Advisor and an honorary member of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce. She is an independent non-executive director of a FTSE100 company, Lion Finance Group (BGEO), which main operating subsidiaries are leading, customer-centric universal banks – Bank of Georgia in Georgia and Ameriabank in Armenia.
Prior to East Capital, she worked in the banking industry and as a financial consultant in Nizhny-Novgorod and Moscow. She holds a Master's Degree in Business Management from EM Lyon, a Post Graduate Degree in Eastern European Studies from Sciences Po Paris, and studied at the Moscow Academy of Finance and Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki.
Karine has been a member of the advisory board of Northeastern University's Center for Emerging Markets since 2020.
