Claudia Kruse is part of the global management team of the investment function reporting into the Chief Executive Officer of APG Asset Management. Before joining APG in 2009, she worked on the buy and sell-side in London for almost a decade.

She currently serves on the Board of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and co-chairs the Paris Aligned Investing Initiative (PAII). In 2016 she was appointed to the German Corporate Governance Code Commission, and she was a member of the EU Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (2017). In July 2020, APG together with PGGM, AustralianSuper and British Columbia Investment Management launched the SDI Asset Owner Platform, setting a global standard for investing into the Sustainable Development Goals, which Claudia chairs.