2023 SESSIONS

Scott Abrams

Anchor Investor, Soros Economic Development Fund

Scott Abrams is the Director of Impact & Partnerships at the Soros Economic Development Fund, the impact investment arm of the Open Society Foundations. He has held various leadership positions at Open Society Foundations, and worked for the World Bank, the United Nations and as a consultant to numerous development agencies, philanthropies and businesses. He is based in New York City.

Dr. Zina Affas Besse

Deputy Head of Healthcare Private Equity, AXA IM Alts

Dr. Zina Affas Besse has been investing in and operating healthcare companies for twenty-five years. She joined AXA IM Alts as Deputy Head of Healthcare Private Equity in 2022 after advising AXA IM Alts since April 2020. Zina has been serving as Board Member for companies including Eyenuk, Biolinq, Axena Health and Alydia Health. Previously, Zina worked with various healthcare companies supporting them with fundraising and business development. She earned a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacy degrees from The University of Nottingham.

Søren Peter Andreasen

Deputy CEO, IFU - Investment Fund for Developing Countries

Søren Peter Andreasen is Deputy CEO of IFU, Denmark's development finance institution with capital under management of EUR 2.1bn. Former CEO of EDFI, which is the umbrella organisation for the European development finance institutions. Moreover, Søren Peter Andreasen serves as chairman of the Board of Directors of EDFI Management Company, specialising in innovative development finance. Søren Peter Andreasen has also held a position as member of the Global Future Council on SDG investments under the auspices of the World Economic Forum. He holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University and has previously worked at McKinsey & Company and as co-founding partner of Dalberg Global Development Advisers.

Kunle Apampa

Head of Client Solutions, Capricorn Investment Group

Kunle Apampa is Head of Client Solutions at Capricorn Investment Group, one of the largest mission-aligned investment firms globally managing $9B+ in assets on behalf of families, foundations, and institutional investors. Kunle is responsible for the institutional growth of Capricorn as a purpose-built Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO). Prior to joining Capricorn, Kunle was Vice President at Goldman Sachs Imprint, an ESG & Impact Investment platform within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Kunle spent over a decade at Goldman Sachs, holding several leadership roles within the firm’s Global Markets division as well as the Finance division. Kunle holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering, specializing in Energy, Environment & Economics, from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Kunle serves on the steering committee of Intentional Endowment Network, the membership committee of Confluence Philanthropy and in a personal capacity, works with some of the most active venture funds in Africa.

Rui Barros

Bridget Beals

Head of Climate Risk & Strategy, KPMG

Bridget leads on Climate and Nature for the UK firm, helping clients understand the physical and transition risks and opportunities that they will face under various climate change and nature scenarios, the impact of these risks on their operations and the strategy they need to put in place to mitigate these risks as well as to take advantage of any opportunities arising. Bridget has over 15 years’ experience in climate change, nature and decarbonization, spanning a variety of private and public sector roles including banking, Government advisory and strategic consulting. Bridget has significant experience across the asset management sector supporting a range of large global asset managers to define their firm, fund and investment strategies on sustainability, connecting their approach to value and delivering on the significant opportunities presented by the transition to a low carbon and nature positive world.

Paola Bellotti

Sustainability and Development Director, Coop Fund

Paola Bellotti has been working in the “alternative finance” sector for 20 years. After her university experience in the US (University of Washington, Seattle, 1999, 2001), she worked in the microfinance sector for 10 years, working in both government (FAO) and NGO sectors, mostly dedicated to projects supporting small and microentrepreneurs in accessing adequate financial instruments. She worked in various microfinance-supporting regions, mostly in Latin America and South-East Asia. Following this experience, she joined the cooperative movement where she continued to work in the sector of access to finance for SMEs, including capacity building on financial literacy and financial planning. In the past 5 years she started looking at social and environmental impact of SMEs in terms of management and measurement. For this purpose, she graduated at LSE in 2019 with an Executive MSc in Social Business and Entrepreneurship.

Neha Bhatnagar

Senior Advisor, India Impact Investors Council (IIC)

Neha has served the Impact Investors Council since its inception in 2014/15 and been a part of the founding team. Running the industry body as a core member for nearly a decade now, she has had the opportunity to not just witness the phenomenal growth of the Indian impact investing sector but also to contribute in a small way. She has led different vertices at IIC including international investor alliances, member relations, business development, and research. Post her specialization in Robotics from Melbourne, Australia and her stint at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, she also tapped functions across technology, strategic partnerships, business development and academia at organisations like Oliver Wyman, CitiBank, TCS, IMS etc around various global geographies.

Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen

Vice President, Office of Development Policy, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)

Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen is a Senior Executive, advisor, and expert in social innovation and impact investing with the strategic vision to create and deliver financing and business models that produce sustainable, scalable business development. Currently, she is a political appointee with the Biden Administration and the Vice President of Development Policy at the U.S International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). She is responsible for ensuring that all DFC projects have measurable development impact and are environmentally and socially sustainable. She also oversees DFC’s technical assistance portfolio. Prior to her work at DFC, Elizabeth was the Director of SDG Impact, a flagship UNDP initiative focused on mobilizing private sector capital in support of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. For the majority of her career, she held leadership roles at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), leading the Impact Investing portfolio of the largest fund administered by IDB, the ($1.9B) Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF).

Yahya Bouhlel

CEO and Co-Founder, GoMyCode

Yahya Bouhlel, 25, started developing technology products by himself at the age of 13 and was recruited by a Silicon Valley startup Make School at the age of 16 for summer internships to learn, make & teach iOS games. He interned after at UPGRADED (YC backed company) as a product manager while in high school. Back in Tunisia, he decided to create a school (GOMYCODE) that takes the spirit and energy of Silicon Valley (45 Cities, 1500 teachers, 40k students trained)

Amit Bouri

CEO and Co-founder, Global Impact Investing Network

Amit Bouri is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of the GIIN, where he leads the largest global community of impact investors dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing. Amit co-founded the GIIN in 2009, following the launch of the Monitor Institute’s, Investing for Social and Environmental Impact, a landmark report, which he helped to conceive and develop. His work would eventually lead to the growth of a global network around the concept of impact investing and provide a blueprint that would seed the GIIN’s creation. Today, Amit dedicates his work to engaging industry leaders, institutional investors, foundations, and leading financial institutions all over the world to advocate for greater integration of social and environmental factors in all investment decisions, and to develop the tools and resources needed to effectively mobilize more capital towards impact investments. He has authored many articles and has been frequently featured in leading publications such as the Financial Times, The Economist, Al Jazeera, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Barron’s, and Pensions & Investments. He is also a sought-after speaker at events worldwide. Amit has significant experience in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors and previously held positions at Bain & Company, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and within the corporate philanthropy units of Gap Inc. and Johnson & Johnson. He holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, an MPA from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Swarthmore College. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and their daughter, who inspire his life’s work to building a more sustainable and equitable future for all.

Danielle Boyd

Head of Climate Strategy, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)

Royston Braganza

CEO, Grameen Impact Investments, Co-Chair, Impact Investors Council, Member of the B20 and Empower20 task-forces for India's G20 Presidency

Monica Brand Engel

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Quona Capital

Monica Brand Engel is an entrepreneur and investor, launching products and funds to broaden financial inclusion. She's co-founder and Managing Partner at Quona Capital – venture firm focused on fintech for inclusion in emerging markets. Monica started in Silicon Valley, launching a $50 million multi-bank lending intermediary to finance small businesses. Monica then worked at Calvert Ventures and Anthuri Ventures, before joining Accion to head up product innovation. While at Accion, Monica lived in Mexico to work with Gentera (née Compartamos) Bank, which went public in 2007. With the IPO proceeds, Monica founded Accion’s Frontier Investments Group, predecessor to Quona. Monica holds an MBA and MA Ed from Stanford University and a BA in economics from Williams College. She serves on the boards of Khazna, Wasoko, Verto, and Twinco and is a founding member of the EMPEA Impact Council. She’s half Peruvian and blessed with a fantastic husband and twins.

Jennifer Braswell

Managing Director and Head of Impact, EQT Group

Jen Braswell joined EQT Partners in September 2022 as Head of Impact for Private Capital based in London, UK. Prior to joining EQT Partners, Jen was Head of Value Creation in the Impact Group at British International Investment (formerly CDC Group), where she was part of building the impact management framework for the business, including overseeing expert teams on climate change, gender & diversity finance and job quality to drive value creation through an impact lens across the portfolio. Jen is a licensed attorney in New York and started her career in management consulting, focusing on private sector growth, business enabling regulatory reform and sustainability integration in emerging markets with a variety of advisory roles over 15+ years, including an extended role at Booz Allen Hamilton as Head of the International Development & Cooperation business line with oversight of P&L and operations across Eurasia, Africa and SE Asia.

Antony Bugg-Levine

President, Lafayette Square Foundation

Antony Bugg-Levine is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Community Impact at Lafayette Square, an impact investing platform, with a focus on developing partnerships and impactful services that drive change for communities served by the firm. Antony is a pioneer within the modern impact investing movement, with over 25 years of industry experience. He most recently spent 10 years as CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund, a national nonprofit and financial intermediary dedicated to mobilizing and deploying resources effectively to build a just and vibrant society. In this role, Mr. Bugg-Levine helped grow the organization to manage $300 million in assets and run a national consulting practice, and worked with a range of philanthropic, private sector and government partners to develop and implement innovative approaches to financing social change. Mr. Bugg-Levine writes and speaks regularly on the evolution of the social sector and the emergence of the global impact investing industry. He is the co-author of Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference. Prior to NFF, as a Managing Director at the Rockefeller Foundation, Mr. Bugg-Levine designed and led the Foundation's Harnessing the Power of Impact Investing initiative and oversaw its program-related investment portfolio. He was the Country Director for Kenya and Uganda for TechnoServe and also worked as a consultant with McKinsey, where he advised Fortune 100 clients in the financial services and health care sectors. He also served as an associate adjunct professor in the Social Enterprise Program at the Columbia Business School.

James Burrows

Managing Director, Investments, Big Society Capital

James currently looks after the social lending team at BSC, spanning work including Blended Finance, Social Banks, and Charity Bonds. He is also actively involved in shaping and building out the practice looking at investing for systems change, including bringing in the best of what others are doing in this area. In BSC’s previous strategy, he developed and led on the Places workstream. This looked at ways impact investment might play a role in partnership with others in the local ecosystem to make thriving places for the communities who live there. James currently looks after the social lending team at BSC, spanning work including Blended Finance, Social Banks, and Charity Bonds. He is also actively involved in shaping and building out the practice looking at investing for systems change, including bringing in the best of what others are doing in this area. In BSC’s previous strategy, he developed and led on the Places workstream. This looked at ways impact investment might play a role in partnership with others in the local ecosystem to make thriving places for the communities who live there.

Jamie Butterworth

Partner, Circularity Capital

Jamie Butterworth is a Founding Partner of Circularity Capital, a private equity fund supporting the growth and innovation of businesses operating in the circular economy. Jamie was formerly part of the fouding team and Chief Executive of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the world's leading circular economy platform for corporates and governments.

Wenyi Cai

Founder & CEO, Polymath Ventures

Wenyi Cai is the Founder & CEO of Polymath Ventures, a Venture Fund and Studio that invests in and builds digital platforms to empower the middle-class of Latin America. Prior to founding Polymath, Wenyi was an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. As the COO of Milo.com, a consumer internet startup that sold to eBay in 2010, Wenyi led business development efforts with major technology companies like Microsoft and eBay and oversaw the product and engineering teams. Earlier in her career, Wenyi was a consultant with McKinsey & Company in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. Preceding her business career, Wenyi helped build a quantitative trading hedge fund, and was a published researcher in applied physics. Wenyi graduated cum laude from Harvard College, and studied philosophy and physics. Wenyi was born in China and grew up between China and the United States.

Lauren Cochran

Managing Partner, Atomica

Lauren is Founder and Managing Partner of Atomica, an asset management and advisory firm dedicated to assisting family offices and other institutional investors in building climate resilient portfolios. With more than 15 years operating in the climate and impact space, she brings a combination of deep investment expertise and thorough understanding of the opportunities to fund the solutions to and reduce the financial risk posed by climate change. Prior to founding Atomica, Lauren was an appointee in the Biden Administration, running the US International Development Finance Corporation’s equity investment program, responsible for a $3 billion portfolio and overseeing more than $1 billion in limited partnership commitments and corporate equity investments per year. Before joining the Administration, from 2015-2021. Lauren was Managing Director of Blue Haven Initiative, the family office of Liesel Pritzker Simmons and her husband Ian where she oversaw the implementation of the Family’s assets into funds and companies seeking commercial rates of return alongside environmental Impact. After spending her early career in private equity and later at the Clinton Foundation, Lauren got her start in impact investing as a founding member of Imprint Capital’s investment team, the first asset management firm advising impact-driven investment portfolios which was sold to Goldman Sachs in 2015. Lauren holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a BS in Finance and History from Georgetown.

Daryl Collins

CEO & Founder, Decodis

Daryl is author of the acclaimed Portfolios of the Poor and a pioneer working at the intersection of finance and human vulnerability. In the past two decades, she has built a broad portfolio of work with foundations, bilateral donors, governments, NGOs and private service providers. Daryl's work is grounded in a deep understanding of the lives of vulnerable communities across the globe, leveraging the experience of executing Financial Diaries studies in over 10 countries. Before founding Decodis, Daryl spent 10 years as Managing Director and subsequently CEO of niche consulting BFA. Daryl holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from New York University. She is currently based in Massachusetts, USA.

Philippe Cousteau

Co-founder, Entrepeneur, EarthEcho Intl.

Inspired by the legacy of his grandfather Jacques Cousteau and his father Philippe Sr., Philippe Cousteau is an multi Emmy-Nominated TV host and producer; an author, speaker, and social entrepreneur. Philippe has produced and hosted shows for the BBC, CNN, Discovery Channel, Travel Channel and more. As a social entrepreneur, Philippe is co-founder, with his wife Ashlan, of two companies that are focused on building the restorative blue economy; Seavoir Wellness and SeaWeed Naturals. Through his company Voyacy Ventures, he is launching a new enterprise that will combine regenerative tourism, hospitality development, and coastal marine restoration. In 2005 he founded EarthEcho International; a leading environmental education organization that has activated over 2 million youth in 146 countries through its programs. Philippe holds an honorary doctorate in marine biology from the University of Plymouth. He serves on the National Council of WWF, the Board of Antarctica 2020 and more.

Agnes Dasewicz

Chief Operating Officer, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)

Robert Davies

Director, Development Impact, British International Investment

Rob leads the Impact Management team at British International Investment. He is responsible for a team of 16 impact professionals who are embedded in British International Investment’s investment process ensuring each investment is actively selected, structured and managed to make a lasting difference to people’s lives. Rob has developed British International Investment’s new impact framework which adopts the Impact Management Project’s dimensions of impact and is designed to ensure rigorous and comprehensive assessment and management of every investment consistent with the Operating Principles for Impact Management. Rob is also an Investment Committee member for Gridworks; a British International Investment backed development and investment platform for transmission, distribution and off-grid electricity in Africa.

Jonathan Dean

Head of Impact Investing, AXA IM Alts

Jonathan Dean Head of Impact Private Equity Fund Management, AXA IM Alts Jonathan is Head of Fund Management at AXA IM Alts across the Impact Investing and purpose-driven private equity platform. He leads the platform which covers multiple impact themes including: Global Health, Financial Inclusion, Climate Innovation and Nature-Based Solutions. He is a voting Investment Committee member, and has overseen each of the 60+ transactions executed since the inception of the platform in 2012. This includes leading AXA IM’s first investment into global health in 2013, and has since spearheaded the development of the strategy as a key component of the investment platform. Jonathan launched, and is currently developing the AXA IM Alts impact and private equity strategy and also plays an active role in the Board and governance of several portfolio companies globally including for GHIF where he has been Chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee since 2016.

Toju Duke

Responsible AI Adviser, Founder, Diverse AI

With over 18 years experience spanning across Advertising, Retail, Not-For Profit and Tech, Toju is a popular speaker, author, thought leader and advisor on Responsible AI. Toju worked at Google for 10 years where she spent the last three years as a Programme Manager on Responsible AI leading various Responsible AI programmes across Google’s product and research teams with a primary focus on large-scale models and Responsible AI processes. She is also the founder of Diverse AI, a community interest organisation with a mission to support and champion underrepresented groups to build a diverse and inclusive AI future. She provides consultation and advice on Responsible AI practices. Toju’s book, “Building Responsible AI Algorithms'', is available for order across bookstores worldwide.

Petrica Dulgheru

Founder, Roma Entrepreneurship Development Initiative (REDI)

Petrica Dulgheru is a founding member of REDI, a network of non-profit organizations and for-profit aggregator companies that work to promote social inclusion and combat discrimination. A chemist with a background in academia and a wealth of experience in both the private and non-profit sectors, Petrica has a proven track record of success in launching and managing social enterprise startups that support marginalized individuals in finding employment. He holds a B.Sc. from the University of Bucharest, a Ph.D. from University College Dublin, and is currently completing his MBA in Vienna. In addition to his professional pursuits, Petrica serves on the board of the Open Society Foundations program and the Romanian Diversity Chamber of Commerce and is an ASPEN fellow. He is a frequent speaker at EU events on social inclusion and antidiscrimination. Petrica lives in Brussels with his wife and three daughters, Carolina, Sara, and Isabela

Elvira Eurlings

Chief Investment Officer, ILX

Elvira Eurlings is the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of ILX, heading the investment and sustainability team and being responsible for the investments that are being made by ILX. She has extensive experience in public and development finance during her 25-year working career. Before joining ILX, Elvira was the Agent (Director) of the Dutch State Treasury Agency (DSTA) within the Ministry of Finance in the Netherlands. In this role, she was responsible for the funding and management of the State’s overall debt. Prior to this appointment, she worked at FMO, the Dutch Development Bank where, amongst various roles, she was Chair of the investment committee and Director of the Energy Department. Elvira also held various roles within the International Departments at the Ministry of Finance and worked at the International Monetary Fund in Washington. Elvira holds an MSc in International Economic Relations (with honors) from Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

Johannes Feist

CEO, Mikro Kapital

Following upbringing in Germany and UK, Johannes joined the German army, then studied at Universities of Munich (Germany) and Bordeaux (France) obtaining an MSc in Economics. He started his career at the EU Commission, then rejoined the German defence establishment, then became Assistant Lecturer at University of Munich and obtained a PhD. In 1999 he joined KfW Development Bank. In the following 20 years, Johannes served as Resident Director in Kosovo and Serbia, Vice President European FIs, Vice President Corporate Strategy. Since 2015 he was Head of KfW's equity and funds team. In 2020 Johannes launched his own company, JF Investment Advisory, supporting clients in the public (DFIs, International Organizations) and private / corporate impact space. He joined MikroKapital as CEO in autumn 2022, and is refocussing MikroKapital's activities on Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and on new partnerships with private and public investors in microfinance, leasing and the sharing economy.

Eliza Foo

Director, Impact Investing, Temasek

Eliza joined Temasek in Singapore in 2018 and is currently serving as Director, Impact Investing. She believes in channelling capital to uplift communities and protect the environment so that every generation prospers. Eliza has also worked as a private equity, impact investor in renewable energy/sustainability and investment banking professional with firms including Carlyle Asia Partners, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs with a focus on Asia. She is passionate about supporting young and female entrepreneurs in achieving their vision to make the world a better place and doing her part to build impact ecosystem in Asia and globally. Eliza has been involved in various impact and sustainability working groups including G7 Impact Taskforce Working Group, MAS Green Finance Working Group, BlueMark Allocator Working Group and GIIN’s Impact Lab Advisory Board. Eliza received her Master of Applied Finance from the University of Melbourne and Bachelor of Commerce from the Australian National University.

Di Fu

VP of Impact Investing, Temasek

Di Fu is Vice President at Temasek’s Impact Investing team, based in Singapore. She focuses on fund and direct investments across global emerging markets that aim to generate positive long-term social and environmental impact for the underserved. Prior to Temasek, she spent 5 years investing in PE & VC funds across South Asia and Africa at British International Investment (formerly known as CDC Group), UK's development finance institution. Di started her career as a macroeconomist covering Latin America at Credit Suisse. She obtained her M.A. in International Development from Sciences Po, Paris and her Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics with minors in Economics and Hispanic Studies from Columbia University.

Adam Gibbon

Head of Natural Capital, Natural Capital & Impact Investments, AXA IM Alts

Adam Gibbon is Natural Capital Lead in the Impact Investing team at AXA IM Alts, leading on their $500m investment strategy. Adam has spent his career designing and implementing solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss. In 2008 He pioneered the development of the voluntary carbon market, as a developer and auditor with the Rainforest Alliance where he was also developer climate smart forestry and agriculture projects. As a manager with PwC he advised corporate and government clients on climate and landuse strategies and transactions. For the last decade he has been investing private equity and project finance into nature-based solutions to climate change, first as CTO and Investment Director at a leading investment platform before joining AXA.

Sean Gilbert

Chief Investor Network Officer, Global Impact Investing Network

Sean Gilbert serves as Chief Investor Network Officer, overseeing the GIIN Membership.

Nathalie Gogue Ebo

Partner, Open Capital Advisors

Nathalie is a Partner at Open Capital and serves as the Head of West Africa and of the Gender Practice. She has over 15 years’ experience in management consulting working to drive private sector growth and social impact. Nathalie has advised numerous African businesses and global investor interested in the continent. She has played a key role raising the > USD 420 million that Open Capital has mobilized for women and gender smart businesses in SSA. Prior to Open Capital, Nathalie was an Associate Partner with Sahel Consulting. Prior to that, Nathalie worked with Monitor Deloitte, advising various US Fortune 500 companies and donor agencies. Nathalie holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University as well as a Bachelor’s and Master’s in industrial engineering respectively from the Université du Québec, Trois-Rivières and from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is bi-lingual in English and French.

Anastasia Guha

Global Head of Sustainable Investment, Redington

Devendra Gupta

Co-Founder & CEO, Ecozen Solutions

Devendra is an alumnus of the IIT Kharagpur. He has an in-depth understanding of climate-smart deeptech, and the agri-value chain and aspires to build a smart and sustainable future through technology. He heads strategy & finance for the company. He has marshalled product development initiatives and has led product design and market study for product launches. He has been instrumental in building the team, strategic partnerships & raising funds at Ecozen. He is an Unreasonable Impact Fellow. It is under his leadership that the company has been recognized with numerous awards such as the “CII award for Innovation in Cold Chain 2017”, FedEx Small Business Grant 2018, Rabo Food Loss Challenge 2018. He was chosen also amongst the “50 Most Influential Sustainability Leaders 2017” and named a “Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst in 2022”. He strongly believes a shift to sustainability is inevitable and we are here to make it happen.

Marianne Haahr

Sector Guidance Lead, TNFD Secretariat

Marianne Haahr currently works with TNFD as lead sector guidance for the agriculture, forestry fishing and aquaculture sectors. Prior to these roles, she served as Executive Director of the Green Digital Finance Alliance, a not-for-profit foundation working on scaling green finance with digital technologies, co-founded by UNEP. Marianne has served on the TNFD Informal Technical Expert Group and she has developed input papers for the G-20 Sustainable Finance Working Group on sustainable digital finance and for the UN SG’s Task Force for fintech and SDG’s. Marianne holds an MSc from Copenhagen University.

Jacob Haar

Co-Founder and CEO, Community Investment Management

Jacob Haar is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Community Investment Management (CIM), an institutional impact investment manager. CIM provides strategic debt capital to demonstrate and scale responsible innovation in lending for underserved communities in the U.S. and emerging markets. Jacob leads investment activities at CIM focused on partnerships with innovative lenders and fintech companies that demonstrate a commitment to responsible, transparent, and borrower-centric lending practices. Previously, Jacob was Co-Founder and Managing Director of Minlam Asset Management, an impact investment advisor which financed specialty lending to micro, small, and medium enterprise lenders in emerging markets. Prior to co-founding Minlam in 2005, Jacob worked in an operating role for a specialty finance lender in Azerbaijan. Jacob is a Fulbright Scholar, received a M.A. from the University of Chicago’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Dean Hand

Chief Research Officer, Global Impact Investing Network

Dean Hand is the Chief Research Officer for the GIIN. She is responsible for developing and guiding the GIIN’s research agenda.

Karim Harji

Programme Director, Oxford Impact Measurement Programme, Said Business School, University of Oxford

Karim Harji is the Programme Director of the Oxford Impact Measurement Programme at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. He is also the Managing Director at Evalysis, which works with boards and management teams to clarify their impact aspirations and strategies; align their measurement and management approaches; and navigate the complexity of data and decisions. Karim has made influential contributions to advance knowledge and practice in social impact measurement and impact investing. He has published on industry trends and innovative practices; supported field-building initiatives to promote the value and integrity of impact measurement; and designed education and training programs across established and emerging markets.

Ana Haurie

Co-Founder and CEO, Respira

Ana Haurie, Co-founder and CEO Ana has over 30 years of experience in financial services and a detailed understanding of the alternative investment space across real assets and hedge funds, honed over 15 years of leadership at Dexion Capital. She has a track record of building business shaped by the interests of shareholders and investors, with Dexion being recognised as leaders in corporate governance in the London-listed, closed-end company structure for alternative asset classes, raising over $16 billion in funds for 300 buy-side client groups. Ana co-founded Respira International in 2019 as an impact-driven carbon finance business. Its high-quality verified emissions reductions allow corporations and financial institutions to mitigate their environmental impact. Respira channels private capital into climate solutions, ensuring long-term relationships with trusted carbon project developers that enable its clients to use predominantly nature-based solutions to build sustainable, climate positive businesses.

Tanja Havemann

Founder & Director, Clarmondial

Tanja is a founder of Clarmondial, which creates value by proactively designing and implementing investment solutions within the natural resource management sectors. Tanja has over 20 years of experience in environmental finance, including climate finance. Clarmondial has developed and implements innovative financing solutions to mobilize private capital, including the Food Securities Fund. Clarmondial is developing the Biosphere Integrity Fund to finance the transition to regenerative value chains and sourcing landscapes, in partnership with USAID, Rainforest Alliance, CDP and Conservation International. Clarmondial also works with leading corporates, investors and conservation organisations on nature (climate & biodiversity) finance. Tanja serves on the board of the Food Securities Fund, and is an advisor to Cartier for Nature and the Science Based Targets initaitive. Tanja is Danish-Swiss and was born and raised in Tanzania and Kenya. She holds academic qualifications in environmental science, environmental economics and environmental law and policy.

Helle Ærendahl Heldbo

Head of Alternative Investments, AP Pension

Helle Ærendahl Heldbo is Head of Alternative Investments at AP Pension, which is Denmark’s fourth largest private pension fund. Helle Ærendahl Heldbo heads a dedicated team covering Infrastructure, Illiquid Credit, Private Equity, and Forestry investments. Before joining AP Pension in 2022, Helle was the architect behind the build-up of a noteworthy portfolio of alternative investments in a similar position in the Danish Teachers Pension Fund. Helle Ærendahl Heldbo has facilitated all aspects of private market investments for more than 15 years and has excessive experience across the different alternative asset classes. Besides being an experienced investment professional Helle has played a significant role in the implementation of an ESG framework in the alternative sphere of investments which has proven to be the license to operate in the Danish pension industry.

Vanessa Holcomb Mann

Senior Adviser, Office of the Chief Operating Officer, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)

Paul Holthus

Founding President and CEO, World Ocean Council

Paul founded the World Ocean Council (WOC) - the Global Blue Economy Business and Investment Organization - to bring together ocean investors, innovators and industries (shipping, fisheries, aquaculture, tourism, energy, ports, etc.) for leadership, collaboration and action on “Corporate Ocean Responsibility”. Since 2010, he has organized the "Sustainable Ocean Summit" (SOS) - the premier high-level global ocean business event, "Ocean Investor Roundtable", “Global Blue Economy Innovation Initiatives Network” and the "Global Blue Finance Summit "(BlueFIN). Paul is a globally recognized leader in ocean business/sustainability, held senior positions with UN Environment and other international organizations, worked in 30+ countries, with companies, communities, UN agencies, NGOs, governments. He's a regular speaker at international business, investment and intergovernmental events and is the only global ocean business organization representative to address the UN General Assembly. Paul grew up in SE Asia, Hawaii and California, he has been surfing and diving for over 55 years.

Kusi Hornberger

Partner & Global Knowledge Lead, Dalberg Advisors

Cilia Indahl

Head of EQT Foundation, EQT Foundation

Cilia Indahl CEO of EQT Foundation, the philanthropic arm of global investment organization EQT. Combining EQT’s expertise and reach with the catalytic capital at the foundation, provides a unique opportunity to help breakthrough science from lab to market, support non-profit organizations in digitalization, and pilot new ways of investing. Indahl started her career at the UN in New York assisting in the negotiations of the SDGs and holds a double master's in sustainable development and international business from HEC Paris and NHH. Prior to joining EQT, Indahl led the early-stage impact investing organization Katapult and worked as Sustainability Director for Aker Biomarine. Indahl also sits on the board of Amedia, a stewardship-owned media group protecting independent journalism, represents Norway on the Nordic Council’s Environmental Prize Committee, and is the Co-founder of S-HUB, a non-profit aimed at accelerating the field of sustainable business in Norway.

Daniel Izzo

Founder and CEO, VOX Capital

Daniel Izzo is a pioneer impact investor in Brazil, he is the CEO and co-founder of VOX Capital, a multi-asset impact manager with over USD200 million under management. VOX Capital was featured on a Harvard Business School case "Pioneering Impact Investing in Brazil". Daniel has a background in business development in large multinationals and is involved in impact investing since 2007. He is a board member to several portfolio companies, a Emeritus Advisor to Concious Capitalism in Brazil and a guest lecturer at the Oxford Impact Investing Program, at the Said Business School.

Charles-Antoine Janssen

Mr. Janssen serves as the Co-founder and Managing Partner at HealthQuad and is responsible for the Fund's strategic and operational leadership. He has 20 years of experience in healthcare, private equity and corporate finance advisory. He is currently a board member of UCB S.A, Tubize S.A, Trusted Family S.A, IMBRA S.A, Regency Healthcare, GoJob, Lilac Insights, Qure.ai, Wysa, THB, Neurosynaptic Communications and has earlier served as a board member of OPPI, IBLCCI and FOPI. In 2010, Charles Antoine cofounded KOIS S.A. with François de Borchgrave, a global impact investing firm (blended finance structuring and investment management) active in healthcare, education/skilling and living environments. Previously, he has worked at Merrill Lynch, Web Lab, and UCB S.A. He graduated from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels with a bachelor’s in law, completed the Advanced Management Programme at the Harvard Business School and the International Directors Program with Certificate in Corporate Governance from INSEAD.

Nico Janssen

Programme Manager Agricultural Livelihoods, IKEA Foundation

Nico Janssen is Programme Manager Agricultural Livelihoods at the IKEA Foundation. Nico joined the IKEA Foundation in 2019 after working for two decades in developing countries in smallholder based systems. Nico has lived and worked in Tanzania, Cambodia, Vietnam and Burkina Faso. This gives him a wealth of experience and insights which he is now using as a funder at IKEA Foundation. Nico graduated from Wageningen University where he studied Tropical Land Use.

Ted Janulis

Founder and Principal, Investable Oceans

Ted Janulis is Founder & Principal at Investable Oceans LLC, an ocean investment hub that accelerates market-based sustainable ocean investing across all asset classes and sectors of the blue economy. Over a 35+ year business career, Ted has served in various executive positions, including CEO, at financial institutions involved in Capital Markets, Banking and Asset Management. He is President Emeritus of The Explorers Club in New York City and serves on numerous for-profit and not-for-profit boards, including Gannett Co Inc, Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA), One Ocean Foundation and Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment Board of Visitors.

Sashi Jayatileke

Senior Climate Finance Advisor, USAID

Cédric Joutet

Principal, Kois Invest

Cedric is an expert in climate finance, impact investing, and carbon solutions, boasting a career bridging multilateral agencies, financial institutions, donors and private enterprises across Emerging Markets. He serves as a Principal at KOIS, where he spearheads their climate finance practice. KOIS, a leading impact finance firm, excels in translating high-impact projects into compelling investment opportunities for public and private sector clients through innovative financing mechanisms and fund management. Additionally, Cedric is a co-founder of InfraBlocks, a Singapore-based Climate Fintech endeavor, incubated in partnership with the Asian Development Bank and the Monetary Authority of Singapore, aimed at unlocking carbon markets using blockchain technology. Cedric holds a Master's degree in Corporate Finance & Strategy from Sciences Po, France, and an additional Master's degree in Engineering from Ecole Centrale, France. He also engaged in the Erasmus Mundus Program at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India.

Margot Kane

Margot Kane serves as Chief Investment Officer for Spring Point Partners LLC, a Philadelphia-based social impact organization that invests in transformative leaders, networks, and solutions that power community change and advance justice. She joined SPP as its inaugural CIO in 2019, developing the organization’s investment function to reflect an impact-forward approach to achieve its objectives. Previously, Margot served in leadership and investment roles at Closed Loop Partners and Calvert Impact Capital. Margot currently serves on the investment committees of Circulate Capital’s Ocean Fund and the Builders Initiative Foundation, and is serving her second term on the Environmental Advisory Finance Board to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Andrea Kaufman

Managing Director, Head of Sustainable Investing, PGIM Real Estate

Andrea Kaufman is a managing director and head od sustainable investing at PGIM Real Estate. Andrea is responsible for the oversight of a dedicated team of investors focusing on sustainability and impact strategies in real estate, private equity and private credit. These-fiduciary first strategies produce risk-adjusted, market financial returns for their investors. Andrea also oversees Prudential Financial, Inc. (PFI)’s $1B AUM impact portfolio invested from the firm’s general account. Andrea has been a private markets investor for over two decades building innovative, global portfolios for financial return and mission alignment. Prior to joining PGIM Andrea was vice president of Private Equity at Calvert/Morgan Stanley, a socially responsible mutual fund complex, managing the impact portfolio. Previously, she was a general partner at a venture fund investing in early -stage companies in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Serving on boards and setting strategy, Andrea invested in disruptive technology companies.

Alina Klarner

Head of Ventures, Impact Shakers

Alina Klarner is the Head of Ventures for Impact Shakers. Her mission is to diversify the impact investor base and match capital with diverse founders scaling enviornmental and sociatal impact solutions. Alina is the Investment Committee Lead for the Impact Shakers Microfund, as well as an angel investor and LP. She has been featured in Forbes for her contribution to investing in diverse founders and was shortlisted for the 2022 UK Business Angel Association’s “Investment in Diversity Champion” award and as a WISE100 Social Investment Champion in 2023. Previously, Alina spent over a decade in Advisory Services and Private Equity, where she held roles including Operations Director, interim CFO, Board Advisor and Transformation Director. Most recently, Alina worked for a PE growth fund with $8bn under management globally, managing a portfolio of fast-growing B2B SaaS businesses in Europe. She is also a Chartered Accountant with the ICAEW in the UK.

Kristina Kloberdanz

Chief Sustainability Officer, Macquarie Asset Management

Hans Kobler

Founder, Energy Impact Partners

Hans Kobler is the Founder and Managing Partner of Energy Impact Partners (EIP), a $3 billion global investment firm custom-built to invest in the energy transition. EIP brings together forward-thinking industrials and climate innovators to help decarbonize the global economy. He is responsible for directing EIP’s overarching investment strategy and leading a global team that invests in multiple asset classes in the U.S. and Europe.

Jay Koh

Chair, GARI Group, Co-founder & Managing Director, Lightsmith Group

Alexandra (Alie) Korijn

Managing Director, TWIST

Alexandra (Alie) Korijn is passionate about enabling systems change so that mother earth and all her inhabitants can thrive. She is the Managing Director of TWIST, a global collective of investors, practitioners and facilitators actively deploying capital for and/or enabling processes of positive systems change. TWIST is contributing towards building the field of 'investing for systems change' through the collection of case studies, enabling academic research, and more. Additionally, Alie is Chair of the Board of Toniic, a global community of active impact investors; and Management Board Member of Soil Heroes Foundation, enabling the transition to regenerative agriculture. Previously, she was the Associate Director at Enclude Capital (now Palladium Capital Advisory), where she provided capital solutions for impact funds, entrepreneurs, financial institutions and foundations. While there, she co-authored the report ‘Systems Change: An Emerging Practice in Impact Investing’, a research report supported by Open Society Foundations.

Roopa Kudva

Partner, Omidyar Network India

Roopa leads Omidyar Network India and is responsible for overall strategy, investments, operations and portfolio development. She joined the firm in 2015. Prior to joining Omidyar Network India, Roopa spent 23 years with CRISIL, and was its CEO from 2007 till 2015. She led CRISIL’s transformation from being India’s premier ratings agency into a diversified global analytical company. Under her leadership the company’s market capitalization grew four-fold and revenues tripled. She serves on the board of directors of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), has served as independent director in leading Indian conglomerates and education institutes, and has served on several government, regulatory and policy committees and industry associations, such as SEBI, RBI and NASSCOM and Government of India. Roopa holds a postgraduate diploma in management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and is a Distinguished Alumnus of the institute.

Najada Kumbuli

Vice President, Head of Investments, Visa Foundation

Amara Lalemi-Jacobs

Sustainable Investing Client Solutions Associate, J.P. Morgan Asset Management

Amara Lalemi-Jacobs, Associate, is a Strategist on the Sustainable Investment Team, and responsible for implementing the firm's sustainable investment strategy, solutions and product innovation in EMEA. In partnership with our distribution and product teams, she leverages our extensive data and research capabilities, proprietary technology and ESG expertise to deliver sustainable solutions to our clients. An employee since 2017, she previously was part of the JPMorgan Corporate Analyst Development Programme completing four different rotations across the organisation this included working in team within the CIB, Technology and AM. Amara obtained a MSci in Natural Science from the University of Nottingham.

Yasemin Saltuk Lamy

Yasemin is Managing Director and Head of Asset Allocation and Capital Solutions at British International Investment. Her career spans commercial and philanthropic institutions from JPMorgan to Omidyar Network to Guy's and St. Thomas' Foundation. She has been a leader in impact investing for over a decade with 20 years of experience in financial services, specialising in product innovation and transformation.

Geraldine Leegwater

Chief Investment Management & Member Executive Committee, PGGM

Geraldine Leegwater is, since November 2020 Chief Investment Management & member of the Executive Committee of the Dutch pension fund service provider PGGM. Before Geraldine was Member of the Board of Trustees and chairman of the Investment Committee of ABP. Between 2004 and 2018, Geraldine was first CIO of ABN AMRO Pensioenfonds and later Chief Executive Officer of ABN AMRO Pensioenfonds. She also served as a member of the Supervisory investment committee of the Dutch Central Bank and is an academic director for the executive education on pension- and investment management at the ESAA/ Erasmus University. In the past, Geraldine served as a member of the investment committees of DSM Pensionfund, Atos Origin Pensionfund and PWRI Pensionfund. She was a member of the supervisory board of UWV Pensionfund. And also member of the investment committee and chairman of the riskmanagement committee of the Federation of the Dutch Pension Funds.

Christina Leijonhufvud

CEO, BlueMark

As CEO of BlueMark, Christina guides all aspects of the business strategy, new product development, and external relations. Christina established BlueMark as the leading provider of impact verification and a pioneer in establishing benchmarks for best practice impact management and reporting. She has been a thought leader in the impact and sustainable investing market since its beginnings, publishing numerous influential reports. Christina is an active member of the G7 Impact Taskforce, where she works in collaboration with global leaders in business, impact investing, and public policy to improve “Impact Transparency, Integrity and Reporting.” Prior to co-founding Tideline, Christina was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan where she created and led the firm’s Social Finance division, a novel merchant banking business. Christina holds a MSc from the London School of Economics, MA from George Washington University, and a BA from UCLA.

Todd Leverette

Founding Partner, Apis & Heritage Capital Partners

Todd Leverette is Managing Partner at Apis & Heritage Capital Partners, a mission driven investment fund which directly attacks the racial wealth gap in the United States by using the power of employee ownership. Todd's work at A&H is a continuation of a career dedicated to bringing the tools and best practices of big finance and business to those communities and individuals that need it the most. Todd began his journey in employee ownership at the Center for Community Based Enterprise, where he discovered the power of alternative ownership models to change lives. He continued this journey as the lead of Legacy Business Initiatives at the Democracy at Work Institute, where he laid the foundation for the creation of A&H and it's flagship fund, Legacy Fund I. Todd began his career at JP Morgan Chase, and received his JD/MBA form Columbia University and his undergraduate degree from Morehouse College.

Stephen Levesque

Managing Director of Forest Operations, Campbell Global

Stephen is the Managing Director of Forest Operations for Campbell Global. He is the Chairman of the Responsible Investment Team and serves on the Investment Committee and the Price Forecast Team. He is responsible for the implementation of sustainable forest management plans that are designed to achieve client objectives. Stephen also provides leadership for ESG-related (Environmental, Social, and Governance) initiatives including forest carbon, third-party certification, and biodiversity. Prior to joining Campbell, Stephen spent the first ten years of his career working for the U.S. Forest Service in Alaska. He then managed a nature-based consulting firm in Northern California. Stephen received his Master’s in Forest Engineering and Hydrology from Oregon State University and a B.S. in Fisheries Biology from Humboldt State University. He serves as a Board Member and Treasurer for the World Forestry Center

Ashley Lewis

Head of Venture Capital, Development Partners International

Ashley Lewis is the Co-Head of DPI’s Innovation Fund. Before joining DPI, Ashley was a Partner focused on the Africa region with Accion Venture Lab, Accion’s venture arm focused on fintech for the underserved. Ashley has 15 years of experience across financial services, investments, and social ventures, and has dedicated her time to investing in and scaling social ventures across sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Prior to joining Accion Venture Lab, Ashley worked as an investment consultant and early-stage venture accelerator manager with LGT Venture Philanthropy in Thailand and Uganda. Ashley also brings experience from her time in the institutional asset management arms of Goldman Sachs and Vanguard. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the HBCU Morgan State University and a MBA from HEC Paris. She is a fellow of the Finance Innovation Lab of London.

Ramona Liberoff

Executive Director, WRI

Ramona Liberoff is the Executive Director of the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy. Her background includes being part of several impact start-up teams, an active angel investor also involved in promoting diversity in early stage investing, and as a corporate investor as the former COO of the Innogy Innovation Hub, a 100 million euro fund investing in the future of the energy system. At PACE, her work focuses on taking knowledge into action, particularly around the case for a circular economy in critical minerals and recapturing resources for circular food production, and this includes advocating for greater impact investment and blended finance into circularity solutions in key production systems such as food and energy, and integrating the consideration of carbon and circularity measures. Ramona holds masters degrees from Yale University (US) and the London School of Economics and currently resides in The Hague.

Graham Macmillan

President, Visa Foundation

Alessandro Maffioli

Managing Director, Development Effectiveness, IDB Invest

Alessandro Maffioli is Managing Director for Development Effectiveness Division at IDB Invest. He oversees the organization’s Impact Management Framework, which includes a series of tools to measure and manage the development impact of investments from beginning to end. During his 19 years of experience at the IDB Group, Alessandro has coordinated impact evaluations of projects in areas including agricultural development, science and technology, small and medium-sized enterprise productivity, and access to credit. Prior to joining the IDB Group in 2004, Alessandro spent five years at the Research Center for Latin American Studies and Transition Economies of Bocconi University, where he focused his research on the economics of innovation and regional economics. Alessandro holds a PhD in Production and Development Economics from the University of Insubria, Italy.

Brunno Maradei

Global Head of Responsible Investment, Aegon Asset Management

Brunno Maradei is the Global Head of Responsible Investment at Aegon Asset Management, managing a team of 21 ESG specialists conducting sustainability research, engagement, voting and policy advice. He chairs Aegon AM’s Sustainability Board and is a member of ESMA’s Consultation Working Group on Sustainability. Prior to this role he structured finance for infrastructure projects in Africa at the European Investment Bank. Brunno has worked in the finance industry for over 20 years, starting in Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan in London. Brunno has led a pioneer ESG research provider, developed sustainable investment products for emerging markets and structured blended finance for donors at leading institutions including the International Finance Corporation and the European Commission. Brunno is a CFA charterholder, holds an MBA from London Business School and a BSc (Econ) from the London School of Economics.

Jamie Martin

Head of EMEA Sustainability Office, Morgan Stanley

Jamie Martin, Head of Morgan Stanley’s EMEA Sustainability Office based in London, is responsible for coordinating Morgan Stanley’s sustainability strategy in Europe, Middle East and Africa by collaborating across the Firm’s Institutional Securities and Investment Management businesses to deliver innovative sustainable investing solutions, tools and insights to regional clients and external stakeholders. Jamie joined the Global Sustainability Office in 2013. He is a member of the UK Finance Sustainability Committee and is a former representative on the Executive Committee of The Green Bond Principles and B Lab’s Multinational and Public Markets Advisory Council. Jamie started his career at Citigroup, working in the firm’s Global Investment Research division. He graduated from Colgate University with a B.A. and received an M.B.A. after studying at HEC Paris and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Clara Martinez

Relationship Manager, European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF)

Jessica Matthews

Global Head of Sustainable Investing, J.P. Morgan Private Bank

Mike McCreless

Executive Director, Impact Frontiers

Mike is Founder and Executive Director of Impact Frontiers, a peer learning and market-building collaboration supporting investors in pioneering new ways to integrate impact alongside financial risk and return. In 2020, he led the investors participating in the first Impact Frontiers cohort to co-author the article “How Investors Can Integrate Social Impact With Financial Performance to Improve Both” in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, as well as an accompanying Investor Handbook. Most recently he co-authored the chapters on impact management and investor contribution for the forthcoming CFA-UK Certificate on Impact Investing. Mike served concurrently as Head of Investor Collaboration at the Impact Management Project from 2019 to 2021. Prior to that, Mike was Head of Impact at Root Capital, where his article “Toward the Efficient Impact Frontier” was featured in the Winter 2017 SSIR. He holds an MBA and an MPA from Harvard University and a BA from Yale University.

Alexandra McGuigan

Founder & CEO, Inclusive Asset Management

Alexandra McGuigan is the Founder & CEO of Inclusive AM, a Singapore based firm focused on changing the face of asset management by increasing the flow of institutional capital to high alpha female fund managers. With a specialisation in alternative investments, Alexandra has rasied over $2.5 billion AUM from institutional investors. She has held senior positions with 100 Women in Finance, Tribeca Investment Partners, Shed Enterprises and Investec, & worked with asset managers including GAM, Adveq, Och Ziff, Diamond Asset Advisors and Qblue Balanced. Alexandra completed the Wharton Certificate in Asset Allocation and Portfolio Construction. She is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst and a CAIA Singapore Chapter Executive; Holds an MBA majoring in International Business from UTS, Sydney and has a BA Media Communications from Sydney University.

Amerigo Merlo

ESG Manager, Timberland Investment Advisory, International Woodland Company

Belinda Morris

Managing Director, Colibri Catalyst

Belinda is managing director and co-founder of Colibri Catalyst, a new catalytic capital facility created to mobilize private investment in nature-based solutions and generate impact aligned with global climate and biodiversity goals. She has over 25 years experience working on environmental markets in emerging and developed markets. Previously, she managed the Packard Foundation’s Climate and Land Use program and worked with the Foundation’s mission investing team on program related investments in the climate and land use sectors. Immediately before that she helped establish the American Carbon Registry’s participation in California’s cap & trade program. Belinda grew up in Zimbabwe and has lived and worked in Indonesia, Kenya and the US. She holds an M.S. in environmental economics and is passionate about shifting food and fiber production to regenerative and sustainable systems that preserve environmental integrity while supporting local communities.

François Mosnier

Head of Oceans Programme, Planet Tracker

François leads the Ocean team at Planet Tracker, a financial think tank. He brings 14 years of experience working across finance, nature conservation, and sustainable farming. Prior to joining Planet Tracker, François was a financial analyst at BNP Paribas Exane and Capital Group and a conservation finance specialist at Conservation Capital.

Abhilash Mudaliar

Chief Impact Officer, Paul Ramsay Foundation

As Chief Impact Officer, Abhilash leads multiple teams that all focus on enhancing the core work of PRF’s grant-making. Specifically, these include: • An Impact Investing team that manages a variety of strategies to leverage our balance sheet in service of our mission. • An Innovation team that acts as a testing ground for new ideas, helping PRF and our partners push boundaries and challenge conventional wisdom. Abhilash has over 18 years of experience in the world of ‘impact’ broadly speaking. Prior to PRF, he held a variety of analytic and leadership roles in research (at the Global Impact Investing Network), evaluation (at the World Bank), social enterprise (at Unitus and Hippocampus), impact investing (at Elevar Equity) and management consulting (at Bain & Company and Dalberg). Abhilash holds Honours degrees in Commerce and Arts from the University of Melbourne and an MPA in International Development from Harvard University.

John Mundy

Director of Global Partnership, One Acre Fund

One Acre Fund is an agricultural service provider that supports Africa's smallholder farmers to build resilient communities though inputs, finance, training, and markets. One Acre Fund currently reaches 4 million farmers in 10 countries, with a goal of reaching 10 million farmers by 2030. John lead’s global partnerships and focuses on One Acre Fund’s efforts to connect farmers with climate finance and technology. His former roles include Regional Strategy Director for the World Food Programme’s Farm to Market Alliance, Digital Climate Smart Agriculture Director at Mercy Corps AgriFin, and a consultant with green economy pioneer Majora Carter. Earlier in his career, he founded a social enterprise in Peru serving remote communities with improved cookstoves and water filters linked to nascent voluntary carbon markets. John holds an MA in Social Enterprise, a BA in International Development, is a trustee for Producer’s Direct, and in 2015 was awarded an Acumen Global Fellowship.

Sarah Murray

Contributor, Financial Times

Sarah Murray is a long-time Financial Times contributor, a specialist writer on sustainable development, and a non-fiction author. A former FT staff journalist, she also writes for Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Economist Group and others. Sarah’s work has appeared in other publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Economist, The Guardian, and the South China Morning Post. She has worked as a journalist in the US, the UK, Hong Kong, Vietnam and South Africa. Sarah is author of “Making an Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre, How We Dignify the Dead,” and “Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat.” She has edited books on philanthropy and sustainable investing, including New York Times bestseller “Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World” by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen and “Making Money Moral” by Judith Rodin and Saadia Madsbjerg.

Kevin Njiraini

Director, Syndicated Loans and Mobilizations

Kevin is IFC’s Director of Syndicated Loans & Mobilization. Syndications products and platforms mobilize financing for IFC projects to investors in emerging markets. Kevin joined IFC in 2002 in Sub-Saharan Africa, where he worked on manufacturing and services projects. He later joined the Financial Institutions Group where he led investments across Latin America, Europe & Central Asia. He subsequently led IFC’s private equity activities in Africa and the Middle East. He was thereafter appointed as IFC’s Director for Southern Africa. Kevin, a Kenyan national, holds an MBA from Wits Business School, South Africa.

Amy Novogratz

Co-Founder, Aqua-Spark

Amanda Nunnink

Senior Managing Director and Co-Head Impact Housing, Kayne Anderson Real Estate

Amanda Nunnink is co-head of Impact Housing at Kayne Anderson Real Estate. She is responsible for sourcing, analysis, underwriting and execution of investment strategies and working with partners to oversee management of Kayne Anderson's multifamily investments. Prior to joining Kayne Anderson, she spent 10 years at Freddie Mac, holding leadership positions across multiple business lines. Most recently, she led a team dedicated to Equity in Multifamily Housing, creating loan and structured products to generate sustainable improvements for renters and the rental housing industry. In her time at Freddie Mac, she was also head of the Multifamily Investor Relations team, supporting the sale of $75B in securities annually. Her experience at the firm included loan production & structuring on a national level. Prior to joining Freddie Mac, she held various production roles for banks and investment groups. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Case Western Reserve University.

Kenny Nwosu

CEO, Norsad Capital

Kenny Nwosu is the CEO of Norsad Capital, an impact investment company that has invested over USD 700 million in over 170 diverse African businesses. Growth-stage businesses are empowered by Norsad's customised debt solutions, which are all aligned with the company's mission to create significant social good. The firm's investments, primarily rooted in Southern Africa, extend across Sub-Saharan Africa, with the bold objective of positively impacting 100 million African lives by 2030. Prior to leading Norsad's transformational initiatives, Kenny held executive positions at Axum Capital Partners and Equator Capital Partners LLC, where he oversaw the African office as Managing Partner and facilitated key continental investments. His extensive expertise in investment management, private credit and equity is further demonstrated by his leadership roles on the boards of several African banks and investment funds.

Oyin Oduya

Impact Measurement & Management Practice Leader, Wellington Management

Oyin Oduya is a member of our Sustainable Investment Research Team, acting as our Impact Measurement & Management Practice Leader. Oyin partners with our investment teams to deliver high quality impact measurement and management that informs the investment process, identifies opportunities and supports real world outcomes. Oyin works to enhance and create frameworks that enable rigorous analysis of the environmental and social impact of our investments across multiple asset classes. Prior to joining Wellington Management in 2021, Oyin was Head of Impact Strategy at Golding Capital Partners. Previously she worked at LeapFrog Investments in the Impact team, and later working in Investor Relations. She started her career at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in equity research sales and sovereign credit strategy. Oyin has a MSc in Economics from SOAS (University of London) and a BA in economics from the University of Cambridge. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Titilola Olaolu-Hassan

COO and Co-Founder, Zuri Health

Titilola Olaolu-Hassan the COO and co-founder of Zuri Health, a virtual hospital which provides high-quality, affordable healthcare services across Sub-Saharan Africa. Before Zuri Health, Titilola worked for MTech Communications, Oando and Navgas, where she supported women in adopting cleaner cooking fuels, thereby reducing the incidence of respiratory diseases and deaths. Titilola was recently recognized by both VivaTech’s Female Founders Challenge and the Lagos State Government Health Service Commission for her support for maternal and neonatal health. With more than 18 years of experience in sales, strategy, and product management, Titilola has a proven track record in driving business growth, business expansion and optimization.

Veronica Olazabal

Chief of Impact, BHP Foundation | Past President, American Evaluation Association

Veronica Olazabal is Chief Impact and Evaluation Officer at The BHP Foundation, Past President of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) and teaches at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Her professional background ranges ~20 years and six continents and includes designing, implementing and leading global programs, research and evaluation for The Rockefeller and MasterCard Foundations. Veronica has served on various funding and advisory boards including most recently with The World Benchmarking Alliance and the World Bank's Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR). She is the recipient of several industry awards and has published in the American Journal of Evaluation, Foundation Review, Stanford Social Innovations Review and the Global Handbook of Impact Investing.

William Orum

Partner, Capricorn Investment Group

William Orum is a Partner and member of the Investment Team. He serves on the investment committee for all Capricorn strategies and has responsibility for co-leading the investment management of individual client portfolios as well as the Sustainable Investors Fund. He joined the firm in 2004. Prior to Capricorn, William was an investment banker with Merrill Lynch in their global industries group, focused on corporate finance and M&A advisory. William received a B.A. from Amherst College and an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business.

Raya Papp

Founding Partner, SAGANA and Senior Advisor to Circulate Capital

Badri Pillapakkam

Partner, Omidyar Network India

Raul Pomares

Founding Partner, Sonen Capital

Jennifer Pryce

President and CEO, Calvert Impact Capital

Jennifer Pryce is President and CEO of Calvert Impact, a global nonprofit investment firm. Under her leadership the organization has tripled the size of its flagship product, broadened the organization’s mission to focus on equitable climate solutions and expanded the corporate structure to support the development of new products and services. This work has led to the launch of new financial products - Cut Carbon Note, an asset-backed security driving building decarbonization, and Mission Driven Bank Fund, a growth fund focused on addressing the racial wealth gap - established Climate United, a consortium applying for the $14BN National Clean Investment Fund and vehicles to direct over $500MM of capital to small businesses with a design to scale. She is a lecturer at Oxford Saïd School of Business, a board member of UNICEFUSA Impact Fund for Children and an Advisory Board member of Ecofin and the Operating Principles for Impact Management.

Louise Quy

Managing Director, Chemonics UK

Louise Quy, Managing Director, Chemonics UK Louise brings more than 20 years of experience working in international trade and development, banking, and professional services to her role as a passionate and strategic leader. As managing director of Chemonics UK, Louise provides strategic vision, leadership, commercial acumen, and management to a diverse portfolio of international programmes. Passionate about combating climate change and violence against women, Louise currently serves as a trustee of WeForest and chair of Luminary Bakery. Prior to joining Chemonics, Louise worked at Crown Agents as chief commercial officer and supply chain lead. In this role, Louise led Crown Agents’s response on both their COVID-19 supply chain offer response and their Ukraine response.

Andres Raiste

Senior Vice President - Public Sector Industry Leader, Nortal

As a Senior Vice President at Nortal, a leading global provider of digital society solutions, Andres is responsible for public sector business growth across different regions and markets. Starting his career as a digital government expert in Estonia – one of the most digitalized countries in the world, Andres has been envisioning and driving countless government digitalization's in Estonia and across several continents worldwide. Andres is an established thought leader in government digitalization, co-authoring white papers and internationally advising governments on digitalization, transformation and creation of secure, digital societies.

Vikram Raju

Head of Climate Investing, Morgan Stanley

Vikram Raju is a Managing Director and serves as Head of the 1GT Platform and Head of Climate Investing for the Private Credit & Equity division of Morgan Stanley Investment Management (Morgan Stanley IM). Prior to joining Morgan Stanley IM to set up the impact investing platform in 2014, Vikram was the Climate Funds Lead at the IFC/World Bank Group. Previously, he was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and a portfolio manager with Lazard Frères. Vikram is a past Chair of the Impact Council at the Global Private Capital Association and is currently an adjunct faculty member with the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Vikram received Masters degrees in Finance and International Affairs from Bombay and Columbia University, respectively. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Anne-Marie Rindom

Danish Olympic Gold Medalist

Ulrika Robertsson

Co-Founder, Impactus Partner, Board of Directors, 100WF

Ulrika Robertsson is an Impact Investment entrepreneur with 20+ years of international Capital Markets, Quantitative Trading and Alternative Investments experience. Ms. Robertsson is a founding partner of Impactus Partners, a Private Investment office and Placement Agency for Alternative Investments. Impactus aims to generate positive environmental and social impact through capital allocation, and serves a curated network of fund managers seeking to raise capital from institutional asset owners. Ms. Robertsson’s primary professional interests sit in climate solutions and energy transition. Additionally, she is an outcomes-oriented leader in the movement toward gender equality in the financial services industry, prioritising systems change to drive capital allocation to female fund managers. Ms. Robertsson was appointed to the Board of Directors of 100 Women in Finance in 2022. Prior to her appointment to the Board, she chaired the organisation’s Global FundWomen Week conference. Foundational years of her career were spent at Goldman Sachs and UBS.

Alexander Mazyar Rostami

Chief of Innovative Finance Hub, Office of Innovation, UNICEF

Alexander heads the IF office in Helsinki. He joined UNICEF in 2021, seconded from Government of Sweden. After 10+ years in the banking sector, working as corporate advisor and investment banker, in the Swedish bank SEB, he left the financing for profit sector and joined SIDA’s guarantee unit in Stockholm in 2014, using his business skills to tailor de-risked financing for development projects in OECD DAC countries. He also has field experience, working for UNHCR in Kenya for two years and one year in Geneva, implementing the CRRF, with Kenya as one of the first pilot countries, looking at refugee situations as an opportunity to empower displaced and host populations, and to strengthen public services. With his multisectoral thinking, he has succeeded to identify win-win solutions, mobilizing above USD 1Bn to various development challenges, with especial emphasis on FCVs. Alexander holds a master’s in mathematics and a Bachelor in Economics.

Christopher Rowe

Managing Director, Church Pension Fund

Christopher Rowe is responsible for leading the Church Pension Fund’s (CPF) socially responsible investment strategy, with a particular focus on external engagement and outreach. He works to build relationships with companies in which CPF invests, peer organizations, the Episcopal Church and other stakeholders with similar values. Additionally, he oversees various aspects of administration for the Investment group. Prior to CPF, Christopher was Chief of Staff to the CEO of PGIM, Prudential Financial’s asset management business where he was responsible for wide ranging activities including business administration, external relations, and sustainability. Earlier in his career he worked directly with institutions and faith based investors on strategies for integrating values with investments. He received a BA in Economics from Haverford College and an MBA in Finance from New York University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Karen Sack

Executive Director, Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance

Karen is a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance. She has worked on ocean conservation, law and policy for three decades. She was previously CEO of Ocean Unite, co-founded with Sir Richard Branson and José María Figueres, spearheading work on 30x30. Before that, she had roles as Senior Director for International Oceans at The Pew Charitable Trusts and Head of Greenpeace International’s Political & Business Unit as well as its Ocean campaign. She has spearheaded global campaigns to secure a new high seas biodiversity treaty, establish large marine reserves, reform the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy, end illegal fishing and high seas bottom trawling, and drive political and policy action to protect marine species. She initiated the Global Ocean Commission. Karen has master’s degrees in international environmental law and international political economy. She originates from South Africa and lives in the United States.

Kristin Sadler

Manager, Platform & Impact, Quona Capital

Kristin Sadler is Manager of Platform & Impact at Quona, and has been with the firm since 2018. Kristin leads Quona's impact measurement and management (IMM) strategy, including how the firm defines, measures, and reports on the impact of its portfolio. Kristin also heads Quona's platform strategy, which is focused on adding value to the firm's portfolio leaders through fintech programming and community building. Prior to Quona, Kristin worked with Techstars’ inaugural impact-focused accelerator program to provide hands-on support to early-stage companies focused on global social and environmental impact. She also spent 3 years managing membership services InterAction, an association of almost 200 non-profit organizations working in international development. Kristin holds an MBA from The University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business, where she developed a passion for financial inclusion, and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dimple Sahni

Managing Director, Impact Funds, Anthos Fund and Asset Management

Originally from India, Dimple is an experienced investment professional with over 20 years of experience in impact investing, investment banking and venture capital. At Anthos, she is responsible for originating investments, managing relationships, and helping to execute strategies for the fund portfolios dedicated to impact investing across all asset classes including private, listed and real assets. Dimple also serves on the Investment Committee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation. In 2021, she was recognised in PEI's (Private Equity International) global list as one of the 10 most influential women investing across asset classes. In 2022, she was in the top 50 list of women in Netherlands that work in Sustainable Finance. Dimple holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School and a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago. She is based in Amsterdam and she speaks English, Hindi and Dutch.

Asif Saleh

Executive Director, BRAC

Asif Saleh is the Executive Director of BRAC. He brings a multi-sectoral experience in senior leadership roles in private, public, and non-government arenas, with a proven track record of effectively managing development programming, operational and financial sustainability, and building effective partnerships, both within and outside BRAC. Prior to joining BRAC, he was a policy specialist for the Prime Minister’s Office’s Access to Information (A2i) programme. He spent 12 years in Goldman Sachs, ending his term as Executive Director. He has also worked in Glaxo Wellcome, IBM, and Nortel. Mr. Saleh chairs BRAC IT Services Limited, co-chairs BRAC Net, and is on the Board of BRAC Bank, bKash and edotco Bangladesh Ltd. He was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2013. Mr. Saleh holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and an MBA from the Stern School of Business, New York University.

Peter Sandahl

Head of Climate & Environment, Nordea

Peter Sandahl is the Head of Climate & Environment and Deputy Head of Group Sustainability at Nordea. He previously served as Head of Sustainability at Nordea Life & Pension, the asset owner arm of Nordea. Peter has had an active role in shaping the global standards for carbon accounting, net-zero alignment and transition planning for financial institutions. He is a board member of Partnership for Carbon Accounting for Financials (PCAF), a member of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) Expert Advisory Group and a member of the Transition Finance taskforce in Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ).

M. Sanjayan

CEO, Conservation International

M. Sanjayan is a conservation scientist and chief executive officer of Conservation International, an organization working primarily in the Global South to secure nature for humanity. Sanjayan joined Conservation International in 2014 as Executive Vice President; he was named Chief Executive Officer in 2017. Since his arrival, he has led two landmark capital campaigns totalling $2.7 billion; the development of critical scientific tools, including the irrecoverable carbon atlas; public-private coalition-building for massive forest restoration efforts across the globe; and the launch of a pioneering blue carbon project in Colombia, as well as the multilateral Blue Nature Alliance, which aims to protect 18 million sq. km of ocean over five years. Born in Sri Lanka and raised in West Africa, Sanjayan brings a unique perspective to his work, which has attracted media coverage from The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and Outside Magazine.

Megan Saunders

Director of ESG, Kayne Anderson Real Estate

Megan Saunders is the Director of ESG at KA Real Estate where she is responsible for the overall ESG strategy for Real Estate and consideration of ESG issues in the development and investment process. Prior to joining Kayne Anderson, Saunders spent over 14 years in sustainable real estate, most recently as the Director of Sustainability for Lendlease’s Communities business where she led efforts in environmental and social sustainability strategies for their military housing and privatized Army lodging portfolios. Previous roles included leading sustainability for architecture and engineering firm PBK, as the Executive Director for the Stamford 2030 District, and as a Sustainable Buildings Consultant at Vidaris. Saunders received a Master in City and Regional Planning from Rutgers University, and a B.A. in Sociology from The College of New Jersey. She is a LEED AP BD+C, ND and a Fitwel Ambassador.

Zoe Schlag

Co-founder & Managing Partner, Common Trust

Zoe is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Common Trust, and has spent her career as an entrepreneur and investor. Prior, Zoe served as an EIR at Eric Schmidt’s family office, where she designed and led their Shared Ownership investing, and before that was as a Managing Director at Techstars, a global venture capital with a combined portfolio market cap of $63.3B. Zoe led Techstars’ first impact fund and accelerator program, before which she founded and served as CEO of UnLtd USA, an impact investment organization. Zoe began her career in the international development world, working with ex-guerrilla fighters on an organic coffee farm in Guatemala, and later with child laborers and their families in rural Argentina, before transitioning to investing in India. Over Zoe’s career, she has worked with mission-driven founders and investors from seed through growth and exit.

Sapna Shah

Chief Programs & Operating Officer, Global Impact Investing Network

Sapna Shah serves as a Chief Program and Operating Officer at the GIIN. In this role, she focuses primarily on how the GIIN can most effectively use our programs to support our mission of growing the market. She was previously the Strategy Director at the GIIN, and has led the GIIN’s Network Membership as well as an Investors' Council working group on sustainable agriculture investing in sub-Saharan Africa.

Radhika Shroff

Managing Director, Private Equity Impact Investing, Nuveen

Radhika Shroff is a managing director on the Private Equity Impact Team at Nuveen and is responsible for identifying, executing and managing direct private growth equity investments in key thematic impact sectors focused on climate and inclusion in both developed and developing markets. Radhika has over 20 years of experience in impact investing, PE, investment and commercial banking. Prior to joining the firm in January 2020, Radhika was the Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Accion Global Investments. Radhika graduated with a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in Psychology from The University of Pennsylvania, an M.B.A. from The Wharton School and an M.A. in International Studies, with a concentration in Latin America, from The Lauder Institute.

Tazia Smith

COO & Capital Partnerships, Closed Loop Partners

Stevie Smyth

CEO, SVX

Stevie Smyth is the CEO of SVX Mexico, an impact investing advisory firm based in Mexico City and Managing Partner of Regenera Ventures. Regenera Ventures is an impact investment fund developed through the Sustainable Landscapes Ventures, a project funded by USAID and implemented by Conservation International. Since 2017, she has led advisory on multiple projects for SVX MX including advising blended finance initiatives for USAID, structuring investment transactions for impact enterprises, supporting the impact investing ecosystem in Colombia, and educating hundreds of funds, banks, angel investors, governments and NGOs on impact investing, blended finance, and gender lens investing. Before her time at SVX MX, Stevie co-developed the impact investing strategy for the Clean Cooking Alliance at the UN Foundation, managing programs such as the Spark Fund, Pilot Innovation Fund, and supporting blended finance initiatives such as the Clean Cooking Working Capital Fund and the Clean Cooking Capacity Building Facility.

Patricia Sosrodjojo

General Partner, Seedstars International Ventures

Patricia is a General Partner at Seedstars International Ventures (SIV), an early-stage VC fund investing in Asia, Africa, LatAm and MENA. SIV focuses on B2B fintech and commerce solutions that tackle key societal challenges in emerging markets. She has over 15 years of investing and management consulting experience across Asia Pacific and the U.S. Her previous roles include leading growth stage investing for Falcon House Partners, a private equity fund investing in Indonesia consumer space. More recently, she led the portfolio management and value creation functions at AC Ventures, an early-stage VC in Southeast Asia. Earlier in her career, Patricia worked in the private equity arm of Lehman Brothers as well global consulting firms such as Booz Allen Hamilton and L.E.K Consulting. Patricia holds a BA in Economics and International Relations and a M.A in Economic Development from the Fletcher School, Tufts University.

Soren Stig

Head of Strategic Partnerships, Katapult Foundation

Soren is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of The Shared Value Company, Lifeline Robotics, Nordic Impact Investing Network (the NIIN) & Home.Earth. He’s an active board member and senior advisor to the Katapult Foundation, The Savory Institute, United Nations and various others. Having worked within global trade, sustainability and international supply chains for 30 years he’s now focused on investing for system change and ecosystem building - amounts other furthering impact investing in the Nordics, building inclusive communities as well as the regeneration of our common land and oceans.

Robert Sturgeon

Managing Director, Global Investment Strategy, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

Robert Sturgeon is on the leadership team of OTPP’s Global Investment Strategy department (GIS). In that capacity, he has lead initiatives relating to Latin America, emerging markets, sustainability, climate change among others. He is currently leading the development of Ontario Teachers’ impact investing framework and chairs the cross-asset-class relationship coverage teams for Ontario Teachers’ existing impact investment partnerships. He also sits as an observer on the Board of one of Latin America’s leading dairy companies – a certified B Corp. Prior to joining Ontario Teachers’ Robert spent 17 years investing in private markets investing. Over a nine-year period, he contributed to, and ultimately lead, a team which sourced, executed and managed a portfolio of limited partner commitments in North America, Western Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. Prior to that experience, Robert spent eight years in South America with an impact investment firm providing growth equity in the Andean Region.

Agnes Svensson

Chief Impact Officer, Norrsken VC

Agnes works as Chief Impact Officer at Norrsken VC where she leads on impact strategy and methodology, supporting both the investment team and portfolio companies on any topics relating to impact. With 12 years of experience in impact and sustainability, Agnes led the launch of sustainability and D&I teams at fintech unicorn Klarna, and was formerly Co-CEO and Board Chair/member of nonprofit charities focused on building women's empowerment programmes for rural populations in Eastern Africa and Afghanistan.

Steve Tae

Vice President, Business Development International Institutions | Strategic Growth, Mastercard

Steve Tae, Vice President, Global Business Development for International Institutions, Office of Strategic Growth, supports the International Finance Institutions vertical where he collaborates with multilateral development banks and humanitarian agencies to support financial and digital inclusion programs through resiliency and SME economic growth. Prior to this role, he led the Mastercard City Key platform globally, a payment program designed to help governments unlock greater financial inclusion, community reach and engagement across a variety of segments. He has also led public sector business development for Mastercard Data & Services in North America, and worked at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he helped clients solve their most pressing business challenges involving data and strategy. He received his MBA and MA from the University of Chicago, an MS from Northwestern University and a BA from Indiana University.

Elizabeth Teague

Senior Director of Climate Resilience, Root Capital

Elizabeth Teague (she/her/hers) is an expert working at the intersection of climate change, impact investing, and global development. As Senior Director of Climate Resilience at Root Capital—a nonprofit that invests in small and growing agricultural enterprises to transform rural communities—Elizabeth leads the organization’s strategy to advance urgent climate action in frontline communities.Under her leadership, Root Capital deployed $239 million in climate-aligned financing from 2020-2023 and reached more than 472,000 farmers and employees. Elizabeth joined Root Capital in 2010, and she represents the organization in industry-leading coalitions, such as the ClimateShot Investor Coalition, climate-related working groups of the Global Impacting Investing Network, ANDE, and the Council for Smallholder Agricultural Finance. She is also an alumni adviser for Impact Frontiers. Previously, Elizabeth worked at the Asian Rural Institute in Japan. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College.

Ben Thornley

Managing Partner, Tideline

Ben Thornley is a recognized leader in impact investing business strategy and originator of market best practices. Since Tideline’s inception in 2014, Ben has advised over 100 institutional asset owners and managers on the design of impact products and platforms with over $300 billion in capital. Among Tideline’s most notable achievements, Ben led the world’s first two verifications against the Operating Principles for Impact Management in 2019, for KKR and Leapfrog. Tideline spun out an independent verification business one year later, BlueMark, which now counts S&P Global among its investors. Prior to co-founding Tideline, Ben led the consulting practice at Pacific Community Ventures, where his team created the Impact Investing Policy Collaborative, a network of investors, researchers and policymakers from over 30 countries. Ben is a co-author of The Impact Investor: Lessons in Leadership and Strategy for Collaborative Capitalism (2014).

Andre Turkienicz

CEO and Co-Founder, Ag Trace

Andre Turkienicz brings more than thirteen years of experience in the tech industry to his role as CEO at AgTrace, a blockchain traceability solution that tracks all stages of the food value chain. Prior to founding Ag Trace, Andre led the digital agriculture area of the IBM Research in Brazil, implementing projects in blockchain, artificial intelligence, and IoT. Andre also developed IBM’s research strategy for the agribusiness industry in Brazil, working with cross-functional teams to create a platform-based solution for the agricultural value chain. He holds an MBA from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.

Rekha Unnithan

Managing Director and Global Head Private Equity Impact, Nuveen

Rekha is the Global Head of Private Equity Impact Investing and is responsible for executing Nuveen’s private equity impact and climate inclusion strategy. An early visionary, she established the intentional leadership in the impact investing platform for Nuveen. Prior to joining Nuveen in 2012, Rekha was a VP in the institutional investment group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and also held various positions in institutional investments, investment oversight and risk management. Rekha graduated with a B.A. in Economics from Yale University and an M.B.A. with a specialization in Financial Instruments & Markets, Social Innovation and Impact from New York University’s Stern School of Business. She holds the CFA and CIMA designations. Rekha serves on the advisory board of the Operating Principles for Impact Management and is chair of the Global Private Capital Association’s Impact Council. She's a board member on several current portfolio companies helping drive strategy and performance.

Benoit Valentin

Head Private Equity Fund Investments, Head Impact Investing, Deputy Head EMEA, Temasek International

Benoit Valentin joined Temasek International (Europe) Limited in 2014 as a Senior Managing Director. He is currently Deputy Head of EMEA; Global Head of Private Equity Fund Investments and Global Head of Impact Investing. Prior to this, Mr. Valentin was a Partner at Cinven, a European private equity fund, for eight years. He worked for twelve years for Goldman Sachs in Europe and Asia, including as Managing Director for GS Capital Partners, the private equity arm of Goldman Sachs. Earlier positions include Analyst at Clinvest (Credit Lyonnais' mergers & acquisitions arm) and First Lieutenant in the French Navy. Mr. Valentin holds an MSc in Business from HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris), France.

Jasper van Brakel

CEO, RSF Social Finance

As president and CEO of RSF Social Finance, Jasper van Brakel sees firsthand the energy that mission-aligned, catalytic capital sparks. He guides RSF in revolutionizing how people relate to and work with money, leading a talented team that develops innovative giving, investing, and lending programs to address the significant social, environmental, and economic challenges of our time. The former CEO of Weleda, van Brakel writes and speaks regularly on finance for a more resilient economy. His insights have appeared in publications including Stanford Social Innovation Review, Sustainable Brands, NextBillion and Triple Pundit.

Ritu Verma

Managing Partner, Co-Founder, Ankur Capital

Ritu Verma is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Ankur Capital – an early stage fund that focuses on technology innovations for the next billion. Ritu is passionate about the bringing innovations from the lab to market. Prior to setting up Ankur she worked with BASF on sourcing opportunities for renewable energy, agri-biotech and materials. For over a decade before that she played different roles at Philips and Unilever across the globe bringing new innovations to the market. Ritu is also part of the steering committee at ThinkAg an agri-sector platform for scaling innovations in India. She is also a member of the IMC agri and food processing committee. She holds an MBA from INSEAD and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and has bachelors from Middlebury College, Vermont.

Eszter Vitorino

Lead Expert Sustainability Advisory, Van Lanschot Kempen

Eszter is the coordinator of Sustainability & Impact Investing, a European independent wealth manager, Van Lanschot Kempen (VLK). VLK's flagship impact products are the Global Impact Pool (2018) and the SDG Farmland Fund (2021). Eszter works on impact measurement and management, social and goverance issues and has faith in humanity. She is Hungarian. Married, mum of two (8,10), occasionally sleep deprived.

Christopher Walker

Deputy Vice President, Office of Development Policy, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)

Chris Walker is the Deputy Vice President of DFC’s Office of Development Policy, which ensures that DFC’s investments produce positive developmental impacts and are environmentally and socially responsible. Previously, Chris was the Social Innovations Director at Mercy Corps and advised Mercy Corps Ventures, the organization’s impact investment fund. He was also the head of the Innovative Finance Program at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, where he built initiatives that attracted investment capital to address malnutrition. Earlier in his career, Chris was a Fellow with Acumen, a non-profit social venture capital fund, and worked on international economic and financial policy issues at the U.S. Treasury Department, the U.S. State Department, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Chris is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where he teaches a graduate course on impact investing. He received an MPA from Princeton University and a BA from Williams College.

Ana Zacapa

Chair Member & Member, Root Capital & Climate Migration Council

Ana Zacapa is a recognized leader in social impact investing, climate change and international development. Her current focus is supporting and investing in people-centric solutions at the intersection of economic opportunity, climate change and migration. Ana is Chairwoman of the Board of Root Capital, the leading social investor transforming rural communities in Latin America and Africa, with $2B invested and over 10 million people supported. Root Capital is pioneering climate finance for rural communities at the forefront of climate change. Ana is a member of the Climate Migration Council, a group of leaders committed to putting people at the center of climate action and accelerating solutions to climate-driven migration. She is Lead Independent Advisor to IPSY, a global $1 billion beauty innovation platform, on their sustainability, social impact and self-expression work. Ana is a member of the President’s Council for Ceres, the leading nonprofit working with large companies and institutional investors to advance climate change and water policy. She previously founded Ceres’ West Coast office. Ana spent the first decade of her career on Wall Street in investment banking focused on Latin America, as well as in solar energy investment research. Ana worked at the Skoll Foundation, one of the world’s most innovative foundations, where she led the Innovation Investments program. She has an Economics degree from Duke University and a master’s degree in Development Studies from the London School of Economics. Ana was born and grew up in Honduras and now lives with her family in Barcelona, Spain.

Maria Teresa Zappia

Chief Impact & Blended Finance Officer, Deputy CEO, BlueOrchard Finance; Global Head of Impact, Schroders, BlueOrchard and Schroders

Deputy CEO, BlueOrchard Finance Head of Sustainability and Impact, Schroders Capital Global Head of Impact, Schroders Maria Teresa has covered a number of positions in BlueOrchard since 2008 and now leads the blended finance and impact management team. She leads the Sustainability and Impact team at Schroders Capital, the private assets business of Schroders. As of January 2023, Maria Teresa is responsible for the Impact team at Schroders. Leveraging BlueOrchard's 20 year expertise in impact investing, Schroders has developed a proprietary impact management and measurement framework for its Impact-driven strategies across private and listed assets. Maria Teresa is the convenor of the Advisory Board of the Impact Principles, a member of the Impact Investing Institute Advisory Council, and a Board Director at natcap and Swiss Sustainable Finance. She has over 25 year experience in EM, and worked for EBRD, ADB, and the Overseas Development Institute prior to BlueOrchard.

Dan Zook

Executive Director, ISF Advisors

Dan is the Executive Director of ISF Advisors and has a passion for how we finance the transformation of our global food system towards a more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive model. Based in New York, Dan co-founded ISF Advisors to provide research, strategic, and financial advisory support towards the mobilization of capital for the food and agriculture sector. Over the past two decades, he has worked with leading investors, financial institutions, and development organizations in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. His work includes framing strategic interventions, managing complex stakeholder partnerships, supporting early stage development of blended finance structures, and mobilizing capital for industry leading initiatives. He previously worked as a strategy consultant specializing in financial services for Dalberg and Booz & Company where he led engagements focused on inclusive financial services, social impact, and organizational transformation.