FIRCAP - Key Persons

Christian Racicot - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder and CEO of the Institutional Investors Roundtable
Christian Racicot is the founder and CEO of the Institutional Investors Roundtable (IIR) >>, where he also sits on the Board of Directors. Created in 2011, the IIR is a not-for-profit, independent, apolitical and by-invitation-only platform for the world's leading global asset owners (mainly pension plans and sovereign wealth funds) to identify and collaborate on private market investment opportunities and challenges of long-term strategic importance for them. As of October 2019, the IIR comprised over 45 asset owners with collective assets exceeding US $13 trillion, representing (according to Prof. Ashby Monk, Executive Director of the Stanford Research Initiative on Long Term Investing) over 75% of the institutional capital available for long-term investment in the world. He is also the founding CEO of the Long Term Investment Organization ("LTIO") >>, a not-for-profit, independent and apolitical organization created on the initiative of the IIR whose mission is to foster collaboration among global asset owners, national governments, philanthropic organizations and other non-commercial organizations around investment strategies essential to long-term sustainable economic development that require the support of large-scale, long-term capital. Prior to establishing the IIR and LTIO, Christian was a partner at BCF LLP, a leading law firm based in Montreal and Quebec City of which he founded the Quebec City branch in 2001, and where he was specializing in commercial and corporate law. Christian received a Bachelor of Laws from Laval University (Quebec) in 1983 and was admitted to the Bar of the province of Quebec in 1985. He also received a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the Richard Ivey School of Business (University of Western Ontario, Canada) in 1989.

Gordon Hagart

Job Titles:
  • Content Director, Head of Indirect Investment ( FIRCAP )
Gordon, based in Switzerland, is a Special Advisor for the Institutional Investors Roundtable and the FIRCAP. He has extensive experience in the financial services industry, with a focus on corporate and investment governance. Most recently, he was CEO of the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI), based in Melbourne. ACSI provides governance research and ownership services to Australian and international pension funds managing more than $1.8 trillion on behalf of 18 million fund members. Prior to leading ACSI, Gordon was Head of ESG Risk Management at the Future Fund, the Australian Government's $160 billion sovereign wealth fund. His other experiences include working for the United Nations Environment Programme in Geneva, where he played a key role in creating the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment. Gordon was also employed as an investment consultant in Zurich, and as an investment banking analyst with Greenhill & Co. in London. In addition to his executive roles, Gordon is a member of the board of the Australian Government's Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in geophysics from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.