Capital Mobilisation

Elizabeth’s career has been in financial services. She was CEO of Allianz Global Investors, initially for Europe and then globally, from 2005 to 2016. She continued to act as an advisor to the company in various capacities until the end of 2019. Elizabeth was previously at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (formerly Mercury Asset Management), Coopers & Lybrand, where she was a consulting partner, and at Sun Alliance.

She is a non-executive director of Pearson plc, BAE Systems plc and Morgan Stanley Inc.

She is chair of the Impact Investing Institute; a director of the Green Finance Institute; serves on the investment committee of the Leverhulme Trust; is a member of the CFA Future of Finance Advisory Council, AQR Asset Management Institute, the Committee of 200 and the 300 Club.

As well as being a trustee of the British Museum, Elizabeth is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is also a published author of crime thrillers. She was awarded a CBE in January 2015 and a DBE in June 2019 for services to the economy and financial services.

In 2016 Elizabeth received an honorary doctorate from the London Institute of Banking and Finance (formerly the IFS University College) and in June 2019 she was made an honorary fellow of the London Business School.

Alessandra is the lead Fund Manager in the Blended Finance and Impact Management team at BlueOrchard.

Within her role, Alessandra leads several blended finance initiatives managed by BlueOrchard from conception to structuring and implementation, the most recent one launched in December 2020, being the Covid-19 MSME Support Fund. Alessandra is in charge for the relationship with key development finance institutions in BlueOrchard blended finance mandates.

Alessandra is based in Luxembourg, where BlueOrchard External AIFM is and where BlueOrchard funds are domiciled.

Prior to joining BlueOrchard, Alessandra worked in consulting both for traditional banks and for impact investing vehicles across a range of EM and frontier markets.

Alessandra holds a master’s degree in Management from Bocconi University in Milan.

Amal-Lee is a passionate advocate for sustainable development. In 2019 she was recognized by Apolitico as one of the top 100 influencers on climate policy. Her professional experience includes shaping and leading policy on climate change and development, sustainable energy and green finance within the UK Government; Chief of Climate Change at the Inter-American Development Bank and; developing a new international climate finance programme at the think-tank E3G.  

In 2020 Amal-Lee joined CDC Group as Director of Climate Change leading a team on development and implementation of a new strategy for aligning financial flows to the Paris Agreement. In this role she is developing partnerships for increasing climate financed investments, including a Just Transition Finance Roadmaps for India and South Africa, and a new DFI collaborative for accelerating investment in climate adaptation. Amal-Lee is also a senior advisor to the UK Government COP26 Presidency. 

Amal-Lee’s professional career is underpinned by her Doctorate research on drivers for change within the power sector of developing countries, with case studies on the potential for commercialization of renewable electricity in India and South Africa.

Euan, is the Manager responsible for New Product Development and Investor Engagement in IFC’s Syndications department. Drawing on over twenty five years experience working on responsible investment and development finance, he has spearheaded the creation of a number of sustainable and impact investment products. He designed and currently manages IFC’s Managed Co-lending Portfolio Program (MCPP) - an innovative Emerging Market Loan mobilization platform that has raised over $10 billion dollars. A new $3bn, MCPP initiative, MCPP One Planet, which was launched at COP 26 which will create a portfolio of Paris Aligned emerging market loans. In addition to his work in private debt markets, he has also developed new investment products in private and public equity markets. Prior to IFC he worked at a number of private sector investment institutions. He holds an MBA from the University of Oxford.

Leonie Arnoldi has over 20 years of experience across the investment ecosystem (including investment banking, securitisation and private equity), currently an independent consultant and most recently having spent 9 years as a Director at Palladium Impact Capital (formerly Enclude Capital) in impact investment banking. She is a specialist in fund design and structuring. She designed many impact capital transactions, including blended finance vehicles, across asset classes. Beyond fund-related projects she worked on and led a variety of capital mobilization and strategy consulting mandates across impact sectors and themes.

Prior to that she was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley. She started in its investment banking division and then was mainly in its securitization group. There she structured and executed large financial asset and whole business securitisations in Italy, Germany and the UK. In 2005 she worked in private equity for one year with Cinven in Frankfurt, before re-joining Morgan Stanley’s securitisation team in London on the commercial real estate side. The role involved client coverage of German real estate private equity houses, structuring and execution of loans, securitisations and syndications and assistance in the management of existing loan positions.

Maria Teresa Zappia is Deputy CEO and Chief Impact and Blended Finance Officer at BlueOrchard. Maria Teresa also leads the Sustainability and Impact team at Schroders Capital, the private asset business of Schroders. Schroders is the majority shareholder in BlueOrchard since 2019.

Maria Teresa has a 25 year + experience in emerging & frontier markets and has been with BlueOrchard Finance since 2008. 

Maria Teresa has started her career in the field working with the Overseas Development Institute in Africa, and a number of regional development finance institutions like the Asian Development Bank in Asia and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development both in Central Asia and in London.

At BlueOrchard Maria Teresa has authored and co-authored a number of publications on SME Financing, Blended Finance, Climate Finance as well as led BlueOrchard’s Impact reports. Maria Teresa is a guest speaker at a number of universities postgraduate impact investing classes (Bocconi, University of Zurich, University of Geneva, University of Siena, etc).

Maria Teresa is a member of the Impact Principles Advisory Board and the convenor as of this year.

Nick joined the Grantham Research Institute in February 2018 as Professor in Practice for Sustainable Finance. Nick leads the sustainable finance research theme. The focus of his work is on how to mobilise finance for climate action in ways that support a just transition, promoting the role of central banks and regulators in achieving sustainable development and investigating how the financial system can support the restoration of nature.

Nick is author of The Road to Net Zero Finance for the UK’s Climate Change Committee and co-founder of the Financing the Just Transition Alliance. He leads the finance platform for the Place-based Climate Action Network, and is co-chair of the International Network for  Sustainable Finance Policy Insights, Research and Exchange (INSPIRE).

Rory Moses has over 7 years of experience across investment banking and management consulting. Currently an independent consultant, previously he was an Associate Director at Palladium Impact Capital (formerly Enclude Capital), a boutique impact investment bank. Rory provided investment banking services to impact investors across product offerings including fund structuring, capital raising and M&A. His focus was on fund design, structuring and the subsequent capital raising. He has worked across vehicle types and sectors.

Prior to this, he worked in management consulting for 3 years working predominantly for Southern African Financial services companies in identifying growth strategies, both acquisitive and organic. He started in the Graduate Analyst Programme at Step Advisory a boutique firm in South Africa before moving on to consulting to a multi-national debt purchase firm and an investment holdings firm, both in London. He has studied in South Africa, Germany and the UK, holding a BCom (Hons) in Finance and an MBA from Edinburgh Business School.

Sarah Gordon is the first chief executive of the Impact Investing Institute, which launched in November 2019. Previously, she spent 18 years at the Financial Times, where she ran the paper's corporate coverage during the financial crisis and was business editor. Before journalism, she worked in fund management in the UK and the US, and at the UN Conference for Trade and Development in Geneva.  Sarah is a non-executive director of Social Finance, a member of the Charity Bank Advisory Panel, a Companion at the Chartered Management Institute, and a Visiting Professor at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at Kings College London.  She is also a member of the Leadership Council at Snowball Investment Management and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

SoVonna has spent over two decades at the Credit Suisse primarily in Global Credit Products as the Head of Acquisition/Bridge Finance. 

She joined the Sustainability Strategy, Advisory and Finance team as the Global Head of Social Sustainability in January. Her primary mission is to drive the strategy and business of “S” within ESG for the bank, engaging with key stakeholder groups: private and institutional investor clients, corporates, the bank’s employees and external influencers. The mandate is to seek to enhance the bank’s product shelf by creating S-focused product across the Investment Bank and Wealth Management engaging with investors, rating agencies and the NGO community to expand Credit Suisse’s voice and presence in social sustainability. Outside CS, SoVonna is the Chair of Comprehensive Youth Development (a non-profit youth organization NYC public high school students), a co-Chair of the Board of Phoenix Productions Inc (a non-profit community theatre) and a newly appointed member of the City Harvest Board.

Aaron Levine is a Senior Operations Officer with International Finance Corporation, the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in developing countries.  Aaron supported Fiji in the world’s first emerging economy sovereign green bond issuance, advises governments on sustainable finance policies and incentives to stimulate private green investment, and is an experienced reformer of domestic capital markets – with a particular interest in seeing domestic institutional investors connect with global pools of capital.

Adam Wolfensohn is the Managing Partner of Encourage Capital, a unique partnership of disciplined investors and creative problem-solvers, the firm is working with major asset owners to deploy investment capital to solve problems like global ecosystem decline, climate change, and bringing financial services to the world’s poor. Previously, Adam was managing director at Wolfensohn Fund Management and also managed the Wolfensohn family office cleantech and environmental markets strategies.

He produced the climate change documentary Everything’s Cool that debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007. From 2002 to 2003, he worked with Conservation International to create a market for carbon credits from avoided deforestation projects.

He is a trustee of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Yad Hanadiv, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and Bang on a Can. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Adam earned a B.A. from Princeton University and an MEM from Yale FES.

Aisha was born in 1985 in South Africa to Naledi and Sharif Pandor. Her mother is a politician, academic, educationist and lecturer. She has served as a Member of Parliament for the African National Congress (ANC) since 1994 and currently serves as the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation. Her grandfather, Joe Matthews was a popular activist and politician. 

Aisha was the first UCT student to graduate on the same day with qualifications from two different faculties. Between 2011 and 2012, she received a South African Women in Science Award for research and was named as one of the Mail and Guardian newspaper’s 22 Young South Africans. In March 2020, she won the Forbes Woman Africa Technology and Innovation Award. Her app, SweepSouth, won the SIMODISA Start-up South Africa pitching prize and became the first South African start-up to be accepted into the prestigious 500 Start-ups accelerator in Silicon Valley.

Alderman Vincent Keaveny is Lord Mayor of the City of London for 2021-22 and is an international ambassador for the UK’s financial and professional services sector.  Alderman Keaveny previously served as Sheriff of the City of London in 2018-19 as was elected to the City of London in 2013.

He is a partner in the international business law firm, DLA Piper and advises banks, financial institutions and corporate clients in the UK and internationally.  He is listed as a leading practitioner in his area of practice by all of the principal legal directories and is included in the legal ‘500’ Hall of Fame for securitisation practitioners.  Until May 2019 he was International Co-Chair of the Financial Services Sector at DLA Piper.

As Lord Mayor Alderman Keaveny’s focus is on People and Purpose which will champion a purpose-led and people-focused UK FPS sector; growing the global competitiveness of the UK as a world leader in ESG and sustainable finance and home to the best and most diverse global talent; driving social mobility at all levels.

In 2018 appointed to current role and charged to design, implement and drive BNP Paribas’s sustainable finance/ESG commercial strategy globally for their financial institution’s clients (private equity, hedge funds, banks, asset managers, pension funds, central banks, sovereigns, SWFs, banks, and insurance) across BNP Paribas’s group offering. Built and implemented a strategy including product offering & advisory along with training for FI bankers globally.

Recognised as a subject expert in sustainable finance and ESG and spoken at many high profile events.

Before joining BNP Paribas, rose quickly through the ranks at JPMorgan to run their German & Austrian FIG and frequent borrowers Debt Capital Markets (DCM) team.

Recognised numerous times as a FN100 leading woman in the finance industry along with a rising star. One of the 35 under 35 leading women by Management Today.

Alicia Seiger is a lecturer at Stanford Law School and leads sustainability and energy finance initiatives at Stanford Law, Graduate School of Business, and the Precourt Institute for Energy. Alicia has served as an advisor to the Governors of California and New York, the New York State Comptroller, and numerous pension fund, endowment, and family office CIOs on the topics of climate risk, opportunity, and resiliency. She serves on the boards of Ceres and PRIME Coalition and co-founded Stanford Professionals in Energy (SPIE). Her first book, "Settling Climate Accounts: Navigating the Road to Net Zero" considers the rise of carbon accounting in the context of the last three decades of global climate action, examines the rough edges of Net Zero in practice, and makes recommendations for the road ahead.

Anne-Marie is CIO of FSD Africa Investments, the investment arm of FSD Africa. A Zimbabwean, she is the former CEO of FSD Mozambique, and Co-founder of Alitheia IDF Managers, a private equity fund manager investing in women-led businesses. Anne-Marie has a wealth of experience in building African financial markets. Across her career, she has led a range of development finance investments and implemented strategies for private sector growth, in roles at the World Bank Group, CGAP, and UK Aid – among other development finance institutions.  She has held Board and Advisory positions at pioonering inclusive finance organisations in Africa.

Audrey Choi is Morgan Stanley’s Chief Sustainability Officer and the founding CEO of Morgan Stanley’s industry-leading Institute for Sustainable Investing where she oversees the Firm's efforts to promote global sustainability through the capital markets. Audrey also serves on the Firm’s Management Committee and for four years she simultaneously held the position of Chief Marketing Officer where she stewarded the brand to reflect the Firm's core values of leading with integrity and exceptional ideas. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Audrey held senior policy positions in the Clinton Administration, including serving as Chief of Staff of the Council of Economic Advisers and Domestic Policy Advisor to the Vice President, and was a foreign correspondent and bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal. Audrey serves on the boards of several national nonprofits focused on sustainability, community development and social justice, and is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.

Eliza joined Singapore-based investment company, Temasek, in 2018 and is currently serving as Director, Impact Investing. By investing for impact, Temasek helps to shape a better world for today’s and future generations. Eliza has experience as an impact investing, private equity and investment banking professional with firms including Armstrong Asset Management, Carlyle Asia Partners, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs across various sectors and focusing in Asia. Her passion is in impact and sustainability investing and how to shape a better and more sustainable tomorrow. 

Eliza received her Master of Applied Finance from the University of Melbourne and Bachelor of Commerce from the Australian National University.

Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen is a Senior Executive, advisor, and global 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, Ms. Boggs Davidsen is the Vice President of the Office of Development Policy at the U.S International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). In this role she is responsible for ensuring that all DFC projects have measurable development impact, respect human rights, and are environmentally and socially sustainable. She also oversees the Corporation’s technical assistance portfolio.  Prior to her work at DFC, Elizabeth was the Director of SDG Impact, a flagship initiative of the United Nations Development Programme 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.

Elizabeth L. Littlefield has led organizations in emerging markets development finance in the public, private and multilateral sectors for three decades with a focus on sustainability, climate finance, and economic empowerment. She is currently a Senior Counsellor at the Albright Stonebridge Group and a Senior Adviser at the Pollination Group. She Chairs the Board of M-KOPA, the leading pay-as-you go solar company in Africa, and serves on the boards of several environmental and mission-driven organizations operating in developing countries.

Ms. Littlefield served as President, CEO and Chair of OPIC, now renamed the US International Development Corporation (DFC), from 2010 to 2017. From 1999 until 2010 she was a Director at the World Bank and CEO of CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor), a policy and research center dedicated to poor people’s access to financial services. Prior to that, Littlefield was the led JP Morgan’s Managing Director leading emerging markets capital markets in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Eric Rice is BlackRock’s Head of Impact Investing and the architect of Global Impact, the world's first diversified public-markets impact investing strategy. He is an evangelist for scaling impact investing and he collaborates with other investors at BlackRock to help germinate additional impact and sustainable investing strategies. Eric joined BlackRock from Wellington Management in 2019, where he had been an investor for over 20 years. Previously, he worked as a World Bank country economist and a diplomat in Rwanda with the US Department of State.  Eric earned a PhD in economics from Harvard University and a AB degree in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in San Francisco.

Dr Jeremy Gorelick leads workstreams on financing and capital mobilisation his role as Senior Strategic Advisor at the Green Finance Institute, including those leading to the development of guarantee mechanisms and place-based funds established to drive investments into climate-smart infrastructure. A veteran financier, he has been responsible for the design and implementation of numerous financial mechanisms, raising billions of dollars for a wide range of infrastructure transactions around the world. He received his doctorate from the University of Cape Town in the structuring of financial innovations in sub-Saharan Africa, and has been a lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University in development finance since 2010.

Louisa Mojela obtained her Bachelor of Commerce from the National University of Lesotho. She worked for the Lesotho National Development Corporation from 1986 to 1989. She worked for the Development Bank of Southern Africa as Project Leader in Business and Entrepreneurial division from 1989 to 1992. Whilst with the Development Bank, she was seconded to the World Bank, Africa Region in Southern Africa Division. Louisa worked for Standard and Corporate Merchant Bank as Manager for Emerging Markets from 1993 to 1995. In 1997 Louisa attended the Executive Leadership Program at the Wharton School of Business, University of
Pennsylvania.

In 1994 Louisa, together with three women with similar visions for South Africa, founded Women Investment Portfolio Holdings (WIPHOLD). They set out to create an investment vehicle to empower the women in South Africa. WIPHOLD was the first women owned and led company to be listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. WIPHOLD is regarded by many and its peers as a pioneer, role model and trailblazer on women empowerment issues. Louisa is currently the Group Chief Executive Officer of WIPHOLD. In 2018, Louisa founded Bophelo Bioscience and Wellness company, a company cultivating cannabis for medicinal products. “The success of any company must be measured by the development of communities around it. It cannot be right that companies continue to become wealthy whilst communities and or employees even though contributing to the wealth creation of companies remain impoverished”

Marcus Svedberg is the Investment Strategist at Swedish pension fund AP4 focusing on macro, emerging markets and sustainable investments. He was previously an adviser on sustainable finance and the Swedish adviser in the World Bank Board. Before that he was Chief Economist at East Capital for a decade and has also worked at a number of research institutes across Europe.  He has a master’s degree in political economy from the London School of Economics.

Nadia Nikolova is the lead portfolio manager for Allianz Development Finance strategy, managing over $1.8bn of blended finance commitments. Nadia joined AllianzGI over seven years ago originally as a portfolio manager in the Infrastructure Debt team and from 2016 has been focused on expanding AllianzGI’s presence in Emerging Markets including the infrastructure debt partnership with IFC Infrastructure (2017), Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund investment (2018), the introduction of Allianz Asia Private Credit strategy (2019) and the MIGA COVID-19 Response Program (2020), IFC One Plante (2021). Prior to joining AllianzGI, Nadia worked at the Project and Infrastructure Finance team at Citigroup based out of London.

Nadia is an non-executive director  for the International Project Finance Association (IPFA) and the Long Term Infrastructure Investor Association (LTIIA).

Nadia holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Essex and has graduated from Harvard Business School Executive Program for Leadership and Development.

In 2016, Financial News awarded Nadia one of 40 under 40 professionals in Asset Management.

Dr. Naoko Ishii has joined University of Tokyo on August 1st 2020 as professor, executive vice president, and inaugurating Director for Center for Global Commons, whose mission is to catalyze systems change so that human can achieve sustainable development within planetary boundaries. Her belief is that academia can and should play a much more active role in mobilizing movements of multi-stakeholders towards a shared goal of nurturing stewardship of Global Commons. 

Prior to joining the university, she served the GEF (Global Environment Facility) as CEO and Chairperson from 2012 to 2020. She formed GEF’s first mid-term strategy, GEF 2020, with strong focus on transformation of key economic systems. 

She entered Ministry of Finance, Japan, in 1981 and served as Deputy Vice Minister of Finance, Japan for 2010-2012. 

She obtained BA in economics and Ph. D in international development, both from the University of Tokyo.

Nathalie Akon Gabala is the Regional Director Western, Central and Northern Africa at the Mastercard Foundation where she leads country offices and programs for one of the two Foundation regional groups. She also oversees the Foundation’s global Access to Finance and Gender strategies, key enablers of the Young Africa Works strategy.

Prior to joining the Mastercard Foundation, Nathalie was a Partner with a pioneer financial inclusion-focused Chicago based Impact Fund Management company with investments in Asia and Africa. She has over 25 years of industry experience and deep expertise in small and medium enterprise banking, micro-finance, and fin-tech institutions across Sub-Saharan Africa. 

She started her career in commercial banking and has held various roles with Citibank and Standard Chartered Bank Groups in West, Central and Southern Africa. 

Nathalie is passionate about unlocking the creativity, dynamism, and resilience of Africa’s youth. She was recently named as one of the 100 most influential women in Africa by Avance Media in the 2020 rankings.

She serves as an independent Non-executive Director for several financial institutions including commercial banks and Fintechs on the continent. She is also a member of the Council of Governors of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP).

Nazmeera is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Ninety One. In this role, she oversees our firm-wide initiatives, including our commercial imperatives, investment integration, and our inhabit and advocacy work.  Prior to this she was Head of SA Investments, where she worked across our public and private strategies in Africa.  Before that she was co-Head of SA & Africa fixed income.  Nazmeera has covered the macro-economy in South Africa and other emerging markets since 2000. She is passionate about making financial markets work to support development.  Her remit has included the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund, which provides debt financing for infrastructure projects across Africa.

She joined the firm in 2013 from Macquarie First South where she was Head of Macro Strategy. She began her career as an economist at Merrill Lynch in South Africa and London.

With over 20 years’ experience in responsible investment, Shami leads Actis’ approach to responsible investment, sustainability and impact, working closely with investment colleagues and company management to assess and manage ESG issues, helping to build world-class businesses and to deliver measurable societal  benefits. Shami is a member of the Actis Executive Committee, and Inclusion and Diversity Committee, and reports to Torbjorn Caesar, Senior Partner. 

Shami is an Advisory Board member of the World Bank/IFC’s Operating Principles for Impact Management. 

Before joining Actis in 2014 she was as a senior consultant at PwC’s Sustainability and Climate Change team for ten years. Prior to this, Shami led the London business of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, providing sustainability research and analytics to institutional investors and asset managers. Shami has also worked with the United  Nations Development Programme in Central America. 

Shami holds an MSc Environmental Technology, with Distinction, from Imperial College London and a BSc Biological Sciences from University of Durham.

Sharmi Surianarain serves as the Chief Impact Officer for Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator in South Africa. Sharmi leads on Harambee's impact and systems change agendas, and oversees Harambee's work in new markets. Sharmi is the Founder of Making Caring Count, a social enterprise that aims to build impactful solutions around care work in Africa. Prior to Harambee, Sharmi served as Vice President of Lifelong Engagement at African Leadership Academy (ALA). Sharmi is an Aspen African Leadership Initiative Fellow, Class of 2020, an RSA Fellow, and sits on the Boards of Emerging Public Leaders, Metis, Instill Education. Sharmi holds a B.A. from Harvard University, a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Stephanie has led the IIGCC since 2005 and has overseen its expansion into a pan-European investor group during that time. She continues to chair the Policy Programme and sits on the Steering Committee of the Climate Action 100+ initiative.

Prior to her role at IIGCC, Stephanie worked in investment banking for over 7 years, including as senior economist at Morgan Grenfell and a VP at Deutsche Bank in London. She holds an MSc with distinction in Environmental Studies and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an MA in Economics from Exeter University.

Stephen is a private investor with interests in climate change, impact investing and education. For 30 years he was involved in family-held retail business, C&A in USA, Japan, England and throughout Europe.  He has been active in strategic investing since 2002, and founded Willows Investments in 2008 with the aim of supporting promising ventures with a social mission.  He is Chair of the Supervisory Board of The European Climate Foundation; also a board/advisory board member of a number of organisations including World Resources Institute, The Nature Conservancy, Auticon (Europe & UK), responsAbility Participations AG, The Global Leadership Foundation, Sutton Trust, St Mary’s University Twickenham and The Catholic Commission on Universal Basic Income.  More information can be found on https://willows.uk.com/

With over 20 years experience in investing, Tim is passionate about seeing capital used in transformative ways that simultaneously deliver financial and impact outcomes.  He is Chief Investment Officer of Brightlight, an impact investment management firm that builds portfolios and products to positively transform lives and work towards the SDGs.  Previously Tim was the Chief Investment Officer of Christian Super, an Australian pension fund and pioneer in institutional-quality impact investing.  Tim sits on several Investment Committees and has extensive governance experience across investment and not-for-profit organisations, and is an advocate for the adoption of impact investment strategies, particularly by faith-based organisations.

Tracy Palandjian is CEO and Co-Founder of Social Finance, a national impact finance and advisory nonprofit that builds innovative partnerships and investments to measurably improve lives. The firm became a fund manager in 2019 to launch its Career Impact Bond strategy, a financing model that improves economic mobility for unemployed and underemployed individuals. To date, Social Finance has catalyzed over $225 million to help more than 35,000 individuals realize improved outcomes in education, economic mobility, health, and housing. Prior to Social Finance, Tracy was a Managing Director at The Parthenon Group, where she established and led the Nonprofit Practice. She also worked at Wellington Management Company and McKinsey & Company. Tracy is Vice Chair of the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance, a Trustee of the Global Steering Group on Impact Investing, and a Director at both The Boston Foundation and Mass General Brigham. A native of Hong Kong, Tracy graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. magna cum laude in Economics and holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar. She is a recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award, the School’s highest honor.

Mr. Orji is the MD/CEO of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA). He joined the NSIA as the pioneer CEO on 2nd October 2012, from UBS Securities, where he was Managing Director in the New York branch of its Equities division. Before then, Uche Orji had spent 6 years at JP Morgan Securities, London, from 2001-2006, rising from the post of Vice President to Managing Director within the Equities division. Uche Orji had also worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, London from 1998-2001, as Analyst/Portfolio Manager. Hitherto, Uche Orji was the Financial Controller at Diamond Bank Plc., Lagos, Nigeria and previously worked at Arthur Andersen & Co. Uche Orji studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, graduating in 1990, and subsequently obtained an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1998.

Amit Bouri is the CEO and co-founder of the GIIN. His work in impact investing began when he was a strategy consultant with the Monitor Institute, where he helped produce the Investing for Social & Environmental Impact report. He left Monitor to co-found the GIIN in 2009. 

Amit previously worked as a strategy consultant with Bain & Company. He also worked in the corporate philanthropy units of Gap Inc. and Johnson & Johnson. Amit holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and an MPA from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Emmanuel Faber is the former Chair and CEO of Danone, a trailblazer for regenerative food and agriculture practices and social inclusion. He led the multinational company to become an environmental, social and governance leader, which culminated with the adoption by a 99% vote of shareholders of the new French status of Entreprise à Mission in 2020, and Danone to become yet the only stock market listed company in the world that reports its financial earnings on a scope-3 CO2-adjusted basis.

Emmanuel is the founder and Chair of the One Planet Business for Biodiversity coalition, pushing for agricultural biodiversity and soil health, a founder of the G7 Business for Inclusive Growth coalition, co-chaired with OECD Secretary General. He is a member of the UK G7 Impact Taskforce and a member of the Transformational Economics Commission of the Club of Rome. He is also the former co-chair of the Consumer Goods Forum. Emmanuel is French, married, with three children, and an avid rock climber and alpinist.

Mr. Hiro Mizuno has held numerous positions in finance, both in the private and public sectors.

He is a Founding Member of the Climate Finance Leadership Initiative and was also a member of Global Investors for Sustainable Development Alliance convened by the Secretary-General.  He currently serves on the Board of the Principles for Responsible Investment Association.

Mr. Mizuno has served as Adviser of the Office of the President of the University of Tokyo and Executive Fellow of Harvard Business School, Harvard University and Visiting Fellow of Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and a member of Global leadership counsel of Oxford Said Business School, Oxford University.

He was awarded “Outstanding Individual Contribution” in Responsible Investor, Innovation & Industry Leadership 2017.

Mr. Mizuno holds a Master of Business Administration from Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University and BA of Law from Osaka City University, Japan.

Jamie Broderick is a director of the Impact Investing Institute, an independent, non-profit UK organisation that aims to accelerate the growth and improve the effectiveness of the impact investing market. 

Jamie was head of UBS Wealth Management in the UK from 2013-2017. Jamie joined UBS after nineteen years at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, latterly as Chief Executive of its European operations. He joined J.P. Morgan in New York in 1993 and moved to London in 1996. He started his financial services career at Wellington Management Company, an independent asset management partnership in Boston.

Krisztina Tora is Chief Market Development Officer of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG). Since 2017, she and her team have been supporting the development of the global impact ecosystem. By working with countries through their National Advisory Boards, as well as newer countries wanting to join the GSG, she contributes to accelerating capital flows to create impact. She works with nearly 50 countries around the world to drive policy change, educate the finance industry, catalyse impact funds and run market building initiatives.

Prior to GSG, Krisztina co-founded and led the Global Social Entrepreneurship Network (GSEN). GSEN is the global network of organisations supporting early-stage social entrepreneurs, working in 70 countries globally, supporting nearly 5000 social entrepreneurs every year, and benefitting to more than 2,5 million people around the world.

Krisztina has always been passionate about creating social impact. Until 2013, Krisztina was Director at Be-linked, leading French strategy consultancy dedicated to create shared value and core business partnerships between multinational companies and NGOs or social enterprises. Previously she was International Projects Manager at Veolia, a global utilities company.

She holds an MBA from ESSEC Business School in Paris, speaks French, Hungarian, English, and Spanish fluently, and has skills in German and Portuguese.

Nick joined Social Investment Business (SIB) in January 2018. SIB helps UK charities and social enterprises get the money and support they need to improve people’s lives. Since 2002, SIB has provided over £0.5bn worth of loans and grants to charities and social enterprises, and directly supported more than 3000 organisations.

Previously, Nick was Deputy CEO at Social Enterprise UK, where he helped treble membership numbers, develop the Buy Social Corporate Challenge, and oversaw its research function. Before that, he was Director of Policy & Communications at the School for Social Entrepreneurs, and led the expansion of their social franchise across the country.

Nick is on the board of the Impact Investing Institute, Social and Sustainable Capital, Social Tech Trust, and Social Value UK – and on Big Society Capital’s advisory group.

The co-creation of blended finance vehicles at scale presents a tremendous opportunity for true partnership and bridge building across organisational cultures with diverse objectives and perspectives. This is not easy work, but it is important work. A truly sustainable and inclusive world cannot be achieved without the deeper level of understanding and personal transformation which such demanding work brings. The work of the Impact Taskforce provides an excellent blueprint for the journey.