Anna-Liisa Goggs

Anna-Liisa Goggs joined CREO in January 2020 to help build CREO Europe. As a successful entrepreneur dedicated to supporting impact businesses she is passionate about leveraging networks and partnerships to help impact entrepreneurs to scale and has been published multiple times in academic publications on social impact subjects. Prior to joining CREO, Anna-Liisa developed and managed a flourishing results-focused curriculum and investor matching programme for over 250 social enterprises in the Middle East involved in health, climate and education sectors, among others. Winning a UN Sustainable Development Goals Pioneer Award along the way for its partnerships, she has developed strong links with corporates such as HSBC, professional service firms such as Bain&Co and Morgan Lewis and foundations such as Acumen and Thomson Reuters. Alongside this, Anna-Liisa is a highly experienced corporate lawyer, accomplished in corporate finance transactions, M&A activity and IPOs. As a corporate lawyer she worked for Linklaters in several of its global offices, working on high profile deals such as the IPO for DP World and she then moved onto Herbert Smith to help them set up a corporate department in Abu Dhabi. More recently she has worked with several large family businesses as in-house counsel and has helped them set up foundations and develop ESG investment strategies. Anna-Liisa holds an MBA with the Open University (England). She is a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales and holds a BA Law with French from the University of Sheffield (England). Anna-Liisa is based in London.