Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
The World Economic Forum’s Mainstreaming Impact Investing initiative is supported by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited.
Project Team:
Michael Drexler | Head of Investors Industries |
Abigail Noble | Head of Impact Investing Initiatives |
Joel Bryce | Project Manager |
This report synthesizes the ideas and contributions of many individuals whom the project team would like to thank for contributing so generously their time, energy and insights. In particular, the team would like to offer our special gratitude to the members of the Impact Investing Working Group, the workshop participants and interviewees.
Working Group Members (in alphabetical order):
Amit Bouri | Managing Director, Global Impact Investing Network |
Margot Brandenburg | Acting Managing Director for Impact Investing, Rockefeller Foundation |
Audrey Choi | Managing Director, Head of Global Sustainable Finance, Morgan Stanley |
Yulanda Chung | Head of Sustainable Business, Group Sustainability, Standard Chartered Bank |
Cathy Clark | Director, CASE i3 Initiative on Impact Investing and Adjunct Assoc. Professor, Duke University |
Sasha Dichter | Chief Innovation Officer, Acumen Fund |
Patrick Elmer | Head of Responsible Investments and Philanthropy Services, Credit Suisse |
Andreas Ernst | Head of Impact Investing, UBS |
James Gifford | Executive Director, UNPRI |
Paula Goldman | Senior Director, Knowledge & Advocacy, Omidyar Network |
Chris Harvey | Managing Partner, Global Head, Financial Services, Deloitte |
Randall Kempner | Executive Director, Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) |
John Kohler | Executive Fellow & Director of Social Capital, Santa Clara University |
Ritu Kumar | Director, Actis |
Andy Kuper | Founder and President, LeapFrog Investments |
Manuel Lewin | Head of Responsible Investment, Zurich Insurance Company |
Asad Mahmood | Managing Director, Global Social Investment Funds, Deutsche Bank |
Sarbjit Nahal | Director, ESG & Sustainability Strategy, Bank of America |
Andrea Phillips | Vice-President, Urban Investment Group, Goldman Sachs |
Pradeep Ramamurthy | Director, Abraaj Group |
Kash Rangan | Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Harvard Business School |
Alvaro Rodriguez | Co-Founder and Managing Partner, IGNIA |
Yasemin Saltuk | Director, Social Finance Research, JP Morgan Social Finance |
Kristen Sullivan | Partner, Global Sustainability & Climate Change (S&CC) services group, Deloitte |
Ben Thornley | Director of Insight, Pacific Community Ventures |
The authors would like to recognize all those who participated in workshops, interviews and project conversations (in alphabetical order):
Kate Ahern | Case Foundation |
Vikram Akula | AgSri Agricultural Services |
Philo Alto | Asia Community Ventures |
Johan H. Andresen | Ferd |
Ruulke Bagijn | PGGM |
Pasha Bakhtiar | Willow Impact Investors |
Anat Bar-Gera | YooMee Africa |
Amy Bell | JP Morgan Social Finance |
Christian Benigni | First Avenue |
Vivina Berla | Sarona Asset Management |
Matthew Bishop | The Economist |
Max von Bismarck | SkyBridge Capital |
Wiebe Boer | The Tony Elumelu Foundation |
François Bonnici | Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship |
Kieron Boyle | UK Cabinet Office |
Richard Brass | Berenberg Bank |
Andreas Brodtmann | Berenberg Bank |
Alisher B. Usmanov | USM Holdings Limited |
Valeria Budinich | Ashoka |
Geoff Burnard | Investing for Good |
Christian Busch | London School of Economics Innovation Co-Creation Lab |
Mildred Callear | Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF) |
Mark Campanale | Social Stock Exchange |
David Chen | Equilibrium Capital |
Christine Chow | Homage Consulting |
Tracy Clarke | Standard Chartered Bank |
Sir Ronald Cohen | Big Society Capital |
Ron Cordes | Genworth Financial Wealth Management |
Jean-Philippe de Schrevel | Bamboo Finance |
Kriss Deiglmeier | Stanford Center for Social Innovation |
Christopher DeLong | Taconic Capital Advisors |
Tommy Deuschle | C Media |
Kirill Dmitriev | Russian Direct Investment Fund |
Tahira Dosani | LeapFrog Investments |
Christine Driscoll Goulay | INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Initiative |
Robert A. Edwards | NGP Energy Capital Management |
Daniel Epstein | Unreasonable Group |
Eme Essien Lore | The Rockefeller Foundation |
Bridgit Evans | GreaterCapital |
Charles Ewald | New Island Capital Management |
Malik Fal | Omidyar Network Services |
David Ferreira | GAVI Alliance |
Joshua Fink | Enso Capital Management |
Paul Fletcher | Actis |
Scott J. Freidheim | Investcorp International |
Alexander Friedman | UBS |
Lara Galinsky | Echoing Green |
Katherine Garrett-Cox | Alliance Trust |
Temesgen Gebru | Speak Ethiopian |
Michele Giddens | Bridges Ventures |
Barry M. Gosin | Newmark Grubb Knight Frank |
Jonathan Greenblatt | White House, Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation |
Sean Greene | Case Foundation |
Sanjay Gupta | Tau Investment Management |
Wadie Habboush | Habboush Group |
Farha-Joyce Haboucha | Rockefeller Financial |
Simon Harford | Actis |
Michael Harrington | Actis |
Pamela Hartigan | Saïd Business School, University of Oxford |
Tyler Hartung | Unreasonable Institute |
Laura Hemrika | Credit Suisse |
Renat Heuberger | South Pole Carbon |
John Hoffmire | University of Oxford |
Bim Hundal | Lion’s Head Global Partners |
Ali El Idrissi | Morgan Social Finance |
Kimihiko Inaba | Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) |
Jonathan Jackson | Dimagi |
Jamie Jones | Kellogg School of Management |
Scott Kalb | KLTI Advisors |
Zia Khan | The Rockefeller Foundation |
Andrew Klaber | Paulson & Company |
Dinah Koehler | Deloitte |
Marjo Koivisto | World Bank Group |
Brij Kothari | PlanetRead |
Lisa Kropman Cohen | The Bertha Foundation |
Michael Krupp | The Boston Consulting Group |
Steve Kuhn | Pine River Capital Management |
Frank Kui Tang | FountainVest Partners |
Don Lam | VinaCapital |
Tashi Lassalle | Actis |
Elizabeth Littlefield | Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) |
Tanya Lobel | Actis |
Daniel S. Loeb | Third Point |
Kevin Lu | World Bank Group |
Howard W. Lutnick | Cantor Fitzgerald |
Leslie Maasdorp | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Olano Makhubela | National Treasury, Republic of South Africa |
Mario Marconi | UBS |
Sarah Mavrinac | Aidha |
Jamie McAuliffe | Education For Employment (EFE) |
Matt Mead | Nesta |
Felipe Medina | Goldman Sachs |
Stefan Meister | Waypoint Capital |
Daniel Mintz | Olympus Capital Asia |
Bosworth Monck | International Finance Corporation (IFC) |
Margaret Moore | Goldman Sachs |
James Mwangi | Dalberg |
Vinay Nair | Acumen Fund |
Jenna Nicholas | Calvert Foundation |
Amy Muska O’Brien | TIAA-CREF |
Nick O’Donohoe | Big Society Capital |
Rita Perakis | Center for Global Development |
Gayle Peterson | Saïd Business School, University of Oxford |
Xavier Pierluca | Bamboo Finance |
Allon Raiz | Raizcorp |
Jamie Rantanen | Deutsche Bank |
Cecilia Reyes | Zurich Insurance Group |
Karl Richter | Engaged Investment |
Tone Rosingholm | JP Morgan Social Finance |
Jim Roth | LeapFrog Investments |
Linda Rottenberg | Endeavor |
Sean Rush | JA Worldwide |
Michael Sabia | Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec |
Kim Samuel-Johnson | Samuel Group of Companies |
Danyal Sattar | Esmee Fairbairn |
Björn Savén | IK Investment Partners |
Anthony Scaramucci | SkyBridge Capital |
Leo Schlesinger | Masisa Mexico Organization |
Audrey Selian | Rianta Capital |
Shrupti Shah | Deloitte |
Sonal Shah | Case Foundation |
Robert J. Shiller | Yale University |
Wayne Silby | Calvert Investments |
Lorna Solis | Blue Rose Compass |
Nadia Sood | Impact Investment Partners |
Wolfgang Spiess-Knafl | Zeppelin Universitat |
David Spreng | Crescendo Ventures |
Saurabh Srivastava | Infinity Ventures |
Eytan Stibbe | Vital Capital Fund |
Ivan Streshinsky | OJSC Telecominvest |
Keely Stevenson | Bamboo Finance |
Iqbal Survé | Sekunjalo |
Paul Szkiler | Truestone Asset Management |
Haim Taib | Mitrelli Group Ltd |
Colin Teichholtz | Pine River Capital Management |
Gillian Tett | Financial Times |
Geetha Tharmaratnam | The Abraaj Group |
Klaus Tischhauser | Responsibility |
Michael Useem | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
Tim van der Weide | PGGM |
Sev Vettivetpillai | The Abraaj Group |
Luca von Allmen | UBS |
Jane Wales | World Affairs Council of Northern California |
Ingo Weber | Global Impact Investing Network |
Eric Weinberg | Impact Capital Strategies |
Joche Wermuth | Wermuth Asset Management |
Fred Werneck | responsAbility |
Gavin Wilson | International Finance Corporation (IFC) |
Karen Wilson | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
Ming Wong | Asia Community Ventures |
Arthur Wood | Total Impact Advisors |
Katy Yung | RS Group |
Jon Zehner | LaSalle Investment Management |
Jürg Zeltner | UBS |
Jeromin Zettelmeyer | European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
Alexander Zhukov | Whiteshield |
Gary Zimmerman | Citigroup |
World Economic Forum
David Aikman | Managing Director, Head of the New Champions |
Børge Brende | Managing Director, Government Relations and Constituents Engagement |
Robert Greenhill | Managing Director and Chief Business Officer |
Jean-Pierre Rosso | Chairman, World Economic Forum USA |
Michael Drexler | Senior Director, Head of Investors Industries |
Special thanks to the Investors Industries team for their support throughout the project: Elisabeth Bremmer, Maha Eltobgy, Peter Gratzke, Alice Heathcote, Marina Leytes, Tik Keung, Irwin Mendelssohn, Abigail Noble, Megan O’Neill, Jason Rico and Dena Stivella
With additional thanks to our seconded consultants: Joel Bryce, John Cunningham, Michelle McLenithan, Radina Mihaleva and Steven Reiss
With gratitude to our collaborators across the World Economic Forum: Jaclyn Asuncion, Jennifer Blanke, Tiffany Chan, Cynthia Hansen, Ethan Huntington, Lucy Jay-Kennedy, Akanksha Khatri, Jennie Oldham, Jonathan Quigley, Mark Schulman and Terri Toyota
Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
Hilde Schwab, Chairperson and Co-Founder
Special thanks to: Manju George, Katherine Milligan, Sandor Nagy, Mirjam Schoening and Kenneth Turner
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Chris Harvey, Global Leader for Financial Services Industry
Special thanks to the Deloitte advisers: Carolien De Bruin, Joel Bryce, Dinah Koehler and Kristen Sullivan