Izia Jennekens (M.I.F.A.)

Isabelle (Izia) Jennekens is lecturer private law and Ph.D. candidate in sovereign fixed income law at Maastricht University. She focuses on the restructuring of problematic sovereign debt, asset management, investment strategies for institutional investors (pension funds), sovereign wealth funds, sovereign and public fixed income strategies and trade and export finance. 

She studied law, economics, neuroscience and sociology of science at Maastricht University and has been certified by SPO Nyenrode on levels A and B for pension fund board membership in the areas of (sustainable) investing and asset management. Before teaching she worked at the Dutch Treasury. Here, she negotiated at the EU, OECD, IWG and bilaterally on standards related to public export finance. She is regularly invited to (inter)national congresses to discuss public investment strategies, fixed income, global macro and trade and export finance. She also publishes on these topics.

Next to her teaching (mostly on financial, corporate and commercial law) she supervises theses on asset management, institutional investors, investment funds and strategies, fixed income, sovereign debt, sovereign wealth, monetary policy, banking and law & economics.

Apart from the UM she works as an investment consultant (manager) at PwC's Wealth and Asset Management practice for pension  funds and institutional investors in Amsterdam. She previously served as a Senior Economist with the Dutch government (ministries of the Interior and Kingdom Relations & Housing and Spatial Planning).