{"id":90662,"date":"2026-05-26T12:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gresb.com\/?page_id=90662"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:47:19","slug":"gresb-foundation-board-member-profile-viktor-filipan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gresb.com\/gresb-foundation-board-member-profile-viktor-filipan\/","title":{"rendered":"GRESB Foundation Board Member Profile: Viktor Filipan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <section style=\"padding-block: 0px; margin-block: 0px;\">\n    <div class=\"container max-width-xl\">\n      <div class=\"textblock__grid textblock__grid--Left \">\n\n\n                  <div class=\"textblock__col textblock__col--img\">\n                          <div class=\"textblock__img \">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1800\" 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400;\"><strong>:<\/strong> Viktor Filipan<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Director Infrastructure<\/p>\n<p><strong>Organization:<\/strong> APG Asset Management<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n              \n              \n<div class=\"author-small\">\n  \n  \n  <\/div>\n\n              \n              \n                          <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        \n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-tropical-rain-forest-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>What sustainability topics are you most interested in?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Embedding sustainability considerations into capital allocation, transactions, and long\u2011term ownership decisions, including how sustainability insights are reflected in origination, due diligence, valuation, and post\u2011acquisition governance in infrastructure investing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Measuring and validating real transition outcomes in essential infrastructure, focusing on whether sustainability data captures tangible system\u2011level change across energy, networks, and other critical assets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Linking sustainability performance to long\u2011term value creation, risk management, and resilience, ensuring metrics meaningfully inform asset management priorities and board\u2011level decision\u2011making over full investment cycles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-tropical-rain-forest-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>What motivated you to join the GRESB Foundation Board?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was motivated to join the GRESB Foundation Board because GRESB plays a critical role in shaping how sustainability is measured, governed, and ultimately used in real asset investing. From my experience as an infrastructure investor and director on the boards of our assets, I see a growing need for sustainability standards that are less focused on compliance, but truly decision\u2011useful and anchored in real investment and asset management processes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am particularly interested in contributing a perspective from the transaction and ownership side of infrastructure investing, where sustainability considerations influence capital allocation, value creation, and long-term risk management. The opportunity to help ensure that GRESB Standards continue to evolve in a way that reflects how assets are actually financed, acquired, managed, and governed was a strong motivation to become involved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More broadly, I value GRESB\u2019s investor\u2011led model and its role as a neutral platform for building consensus across the industry. Contributing to the development of standards that support real-world transition outcomes and long-term investment decisions is both professionally relevant and personally meaningful to me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-tropical-rain-forest-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>How does your organization view sustainability and what is your organization\u2019s approach to responsible investing?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">APG views sustainability as a core part of its fiduciary responsibility and long\u2011term investment approach. For a long\u2011term asset owner, sustainability is primarily about managing risks, strengthening resilience, and ensuring that investments remain robust and future\u2011proof over multiple decades, in the best interests of beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The approach to responsible investing is therefore focused on integrating environmental, social, and governance considerations into investment decision\u2011making, active ownership, and asset management across all asset classes. Sustainability is assessed alongside return, cost, and risk, and is embedded in governance, engagement, and stewardship activities rather than treated as a standalone objective.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A strong emphasis is placed on data quality, materiality, and real\u2011world outcomes. Sustainability information is used to identify and manage long\u2011term risks, guide engagement with investees and partners, and support disciplined, forward\u2011looking decision\u2011making, particularly in private markets and real assets where implementation and execution matter most.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apg.nl\/en\/about-apg\/socially-responsible-sustainable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more about APG\u2019s view on sustainability.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-tropical-rain-forest-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><strong><em>How does your organization use GRESB and its data?<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">APG was one of the co-founders of GRESB in 2009 and since this time has held various governance positions on the Foundation Board, Infrastructure Standards Committee, and Real Estate Standards Committee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For infrastructure, APG has strived to increase both GRESB portfolio participation and scores. Since the inception of the GRESB Infrastructure Assessment in 2016 to now (2024), our coverage has increased from 39% to 94% (whilst our portfolio has also tripled in size), and we have increased our NAV-weighted score from 39 to 91.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a high level, we use GRESB Scores as a proxy for sustainability integration and peer comparisons to help us benchmark our portfolio companies against those in the GRESB universe. GRESB also serves as a holistic starting point for portfolio companies to understand where to focus and improve across the various components. The underlying raw data collected through the survey is also becoming more and more important (i.e., performance-based metrics). APG uses this underlying data in a variety of ways, including calculating our portfolio annual CO\u2082e footprint, determining alignment with IIGCC\u2019s Net-Zero Investment Framework, feeding into SFDR and EU Taxonomy regulatory reporting, and linking to our second-line ESG risk monitoring tool.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-tropical-rain-forest-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><strong><em>In brief, can you tell us where you think sustainability needs to go in the future and what role organizations like GRESB will play?<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The future of sustainability lies in its full integration into investment decision\u2011making and ownership practices, particularly in private markets and real assets. The emphasis needs to move beyond compliance and disclosure toward ensuring sustainability considerations genuinely inform capital allocation, risk assessment, and long\u2011term asset stewardship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This requires stronger alignment between financial performance and environmental and social outcomes, with sustainability data used to support concrete decisions, engagements, and execution over the life cycle of assets. Frameworks like GRESB have an important role to play by continuously evolving to reflect changes in the sustainability landscape, while remaining focused on materiality and maintaining a structure that encourages broad participation at asset level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container max-width-xl content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the near term, there will likely be an increased focus on environmental topics where the link to long\u2011term risk and resilience is most tangible, including net-zero pathways, physical climate risk, and biodiversity. 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