Jelle Beenen

Jelle Beenen is currently head of Alternative Beta at PGGM Investments.
Alternative Beta covers PGGM’s strategic investments that cannot be implemented by replicating market indices.
It comprises Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Long Term Fundamental Investments and Strategic Absolute Return Strategies (“Portfolio of Strategies”).
Jelle was one of the initiators of PGGM’s Portfolio of Strategies in 2004.
After he joined PGGM in 2000 Jelle has built PGGM’s Commodities investments and started its Quantitative Strategies group.
He was responsible for PGGM’s Commodities investments from June 2000 to March 2006.
Prior to joining PGGM in 2000 he held positions as Quantitative Researcher responsible for modeling exotic derivatives at ABN AMRO Bank and Rabobank International.
Before moving to the financial industry in 1997 Jelle Beenen worked as a mathematical physicist at Imperial College in London.
He obtained MSc degrees in Physics and Mathematics at Twente University (the Netherlands) and holds a PhD degree in Mathematical Physics from Imperial College London.
The subject of his PhD thesis was the theory of high temperature superconductivity.