Bennet Barth

Bennet Barth is the Program Director at RESPOND and overseesthe strategic development and implementation of the accelerator program.Bennet is also part of the BMW Foundation’s investment team, where he manages an international portfolio of impact investments as part of the Foundation’s asset management.Before joining the BMW Foundation, Bennet worked at MAZE in Lisbon, where he, alongside entrepreneurs and investors, sought to scale impactful and effective solutions to social and ecological challenges. As investment associate in a 50-million euro Impact Venture Capital Firm, with offices in London and Lisbon. In this capacity, he supported the set-up and fundraising, advised several impact enterprises and, through various joint publications with international partners, contributed to building the impact investing ecosystem in Europe.Bennet studied industrial engineering and management with a focus on mechanical engineering (B.Sc.) and economics (M.Sc.) in Berlin and Lisbon. Previously, he worked in development cooperation in renewable energy projects in Asia and West Africa.