Investing For Impact: Catalysing An Emerging Industry
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Session Description
Using profit-seeking investment to generate social and environmental good is moving from a periphery of activist investors to the core of mainstream financial institutions. Going far beyond the negative screens of ‘socially responsible investing’, this session will explore opportunities and trends among investors that actively seek to place capital in ways that can provide a scale of solution that purely philanthropic interventions cannot reach.
Time & Location
Time:
09:00 - 10:30, Thursday, March 26, 2009
BST
Speakers
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Director, Social Finance
Toby Eccles has been developing a Social Investment Bank since October 2005, initially as a recommendation to government through the Commission on Unclaimed Assets and more recently at Social Finance. Before this he was at the foundation ARK where he built programmes around education in…
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President and CEO, Calvert Foundation
Shari Berenbach is President and CEO of US African Development Foundation, a public government corporation that awards economic development grants to marginalized and underserved populations in conflict and post-conflict areas of Africa. Her distinguished 30-year career spans from…
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Co-Founder, Intellecap
Pawan Mehra is co-founder of Intellecap, a multiplebottom-line investment advisory and consulting services firm, pioneering in capacity building of for-profit social enterprises in South Asia. Pawan was a venture investor in his early career and since then has been a serial entrepreneur. He serves on…
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Consultant, Monitor Institute
Jessica Freireich is a consultant at Monitor Institute, which seeks to help innovative leaders achieve sustainable solutions to social and environmental problems. Jessica is a lead author of the Institute’s recent report Investing for Social and Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging…
