Peter Martin Larsen
Senior managing director, head of private markets, University Pension Plan (Canada)
Peter Larsen is UPP’s senior managing director, head of private markets, responsible for UPP’s private markets portfolio comprising the infrastructure, real estate, private equity, and private debt asset classes. In his role, Larsen leads the identification and implementation of strategic priorities, execution and value creation opportunities and oversees the department’s valuation, portfolio construction, analytics, monitoring, and reporting efforts. Larsen is a senior investment professional specializing in unlisted investments, with deep experience in M&A, investment strategy and asset management. His breadth as an investor at one of Europe’s largest institutional investors and in global advisory and investment banking has given him exposure to wide-ranging investments, projects, and transactions and the opportunity to amass an extensive global leadership network.
Larsen has served on the boards of several large infrastructure companies and on the investment and investor advisory committees of a range of infrastructure, real estate, private equity, and private debt funds. He currently sits on the investment committee of the Danish SDG Investment Fund, a DKK 5bn public-private partnership contributing to the realization of the 17 UN SDGs through investments in developing countries. Larsen has master’s degrees in finance and economics from the London School of Economics and the University of Copenhagen.