The Amazon Bioeconomy Enters the Classroom
Thursday, 10th September 2026
By Paula Perrelli dos Anjos
Amazonia Impact Ventures (AIV) is bringing Amazon bioeconomy work into the classroom. Co-Founder and Investment Director, Pajani Singah, will lead a session on AIV’s model at the University of St. Gallen’s “Designing Capital for Impact” programme this November, breaking down how impact-linked debt gets structured and repaid across Amazonian producers and bioeconomy value chains.
St. Gallen ranks among Europe’s leading business schools for executive education and keeps this course deliberately small. The seats go to the people who decide where catalytic capital goes next: programme managers at foundations and family offices, and leaders in impact investing. For AIV, it is a chance to put the Amazon bioeconomy in front of a cohort that will shape those decisions for years to come.
Now in its 10th edition, the three-day programme covers blended finance instruments, incentive design and impact-linked structures. Singah’s session sits alongside other practitioner case studies, positioning AIV’s model as a reference for how impact-linked debt can deliver both financial and environmental returns.
The course runs 25–27 November in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Applications close 31 October.
About Pajani Singah
Singah brings two decades of investment management experience in London to AIV, experience that shaped the fund’s design. A blended debt vehicle deploying impact-linked loans into the Amazon bioeconomy, structured so that loan pricing moves with the outcomes borrowers deliver. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and serves on the board of Cybernaptics Ltd.
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