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The idea that capital markets could help solve global problems such as poverty and climate change is acquiring a new urgency as government budgets tighten and nations around the world start to focus on narrow national interests. For those working on social and environmental challenges, private sector financing and impact investing could therefore provide a critical part of the capital needed to develop solutions. At the same time, appetite is growing among donors and investors to use both their investment funds and their skills to address challenges ranging from climate change to lack of access to healthcare and education, while also generating a financial return. FT Investing for Good Europe will address these and other questions as we discuss how innovative finance could transform the global development landscape and offer solutions to some of the world’s toughest social and environmental challenges. Add to my Calendar 08:15:00 18:00:00 true FT Investing for Good Europe 2017 The idea that capital markets could help solve global problems such as poverty and climate change is acquiring a new urgency as government budgets tighten and nations around the world start to focus on narrow national interests.
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For those working on social and environmental challenges, private sector financing and impact investing could therefore provide a critical part of the capital needed to develop solutions. At the same time, appetite is growing among donors and investors to use both their investment funds and their skills to address challenges ranging from climate change to lack of access to healthcare and education, while also generating a financial return.FT Investing for Good Europe will address these and other questions as we discuss how innovative finance could transform the global development landscape and offer solutions to some of the world’s toughest social and environmental challenges.
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Kelly McCarthy is a Director at the Global Impact Investing Network (the GIIN), where she leads on impact measurement and management, including the IRIS standards. In this role, she engages strategic partners, standards-setting bodies and investors to define what it means to invest for impact. She leads the GIIN’s work with investors to promote and implement impact considerations in day-to-day investment management. Before joining the GIIN, Ms McCarthy was the Global Impact Officer for New Ventures at the World Resources Institute, where she worked to build a ground-up impact measurement programme for New Ventures global operations. Before New Ventures, Kelly worked for the consultancy SustainAbility, where she focused on accountability within Fortune 500 companies. Lifeguarding manual 2015 buick. Specifically, she explored how disclosure of social and environmental performance to shareholders and the public can drive mainstream adoption of sustainable behaviour. Ms McCarthy chairs and/or serves on several advisory committees for market-building impact measurement and management initiatives, including most recently the World Economic Forum's Dream Team on Accelerating Impact Measurement & Management, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Transparency & Data Charter.
She was also the secretariat to the Impact Measurement Working Group of the Social Impact Investment Taskforce established by the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations. James Lee Sorenson is Head of the Sorenson Impact Foundation, whose mission is to fund sustainable, scalable endeavours that maximise positive impact on people, families, communities and local economies. Over his career, Mr Sorenson has built companies in industries ranging from technology and life sciences to real estate and private equity investment. Combining innovative and worthwhile ideas with talented management teams, he has produced growing new enterprises and has been instrumental in developing several new industry categories, including the digital compression software that helped usher in the online video revolution, through Sorenson Media, and video relay services for people who are deaf and hard of hearing, through Sorenson Communications. Mr Sorenson has also helped establish programmes and organisations that improve the lives of the poor, build regional business communities and train the next generation of entrepreneurial and investment leaders. In addition to supporting self-sustaining charitable enterprises at the foundation, Mr Sorenson donates time, money and energy to institutions that help low-income people become self-sufficient. In 2013, Mr Sorenson created the Sorenson Impact Center at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah with a $13m endowment.
With 25 staff and more than 50 graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Utah and beyond, the centre helps communities in the US and overseas harness private capital, data and innovation to address complex social and public health problems. Mr Sorenson has served on a variety of community service boards, including the University of Utah’s Board of Trustees, the David Eccles School of Business Board of Trustees, the University Venture Fund, Art Works for Kids, Gallaudet University’s Board of Trustees, the Utah Sports Commission, the National Alliance on Impact Investing and Village Capital, where he currently serves as Chairman of the Board. Bonny Landers is Head of Sustainable Responsible and Impact Investment at Sandaire, a multi-family office. At Sandaire she helps develop Sandaire Investment Office’s capabilities in sustainable, responsible and impact investment, while also advising families on their governance structures and assisting them to define their legacy.
Ms Landers, who joined Sandaire’s London office in 2015, has spent more than 25 years working in the US, Europe and Asia at major international banks in senior roles and across the full spectrum of products. From 2013 to 2015, Ms Landers ran her own company as an independent consultant, assisting families and foundations wanting to increase their sustainable and impact investments. In 2005, she was appointed CEO of a large single-family office in Hong Kong and specialised in assisting family members in socially responsible and impact investment. Ms Landers also offers advice to charities and non-governmental organisations, mentors young people and serves on the Impact Investment Advisory Committee of Johnson & Johnson. She is an Honours graduate of Harvard University and holds a Diploma for Non-Executive Directorship from the Financial Times/Pearson Group. Ismail Ahmed is Founder and CEO of WorldRemit, a digital money transfer company that offers a low-cost alternative to traditional money transfer companies, which use high street agents and charge higher fees.
Since Mr Ahmed founded the company in 2010, it has secured almost $200m in funding. In 2015, Deloitte recognized WorldRemit as the fastest growing technology company in the UK. In June 2017, WorldRemit won the overall award for Excellence in Transformational Business at the FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards Mr Ahmed has 20 years’ experience in the money transfer industry, spanning academic, consulting and in-house roles. Before setting-up WorldRemit, he worked for the United Nations Remittance Programme, helping African money transfer companies comply with anti-money laundering rules introduced after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
He has also worked with the United Nations in Nairobi and Dubai. Originally from Somaliland, Mr Ahmed has been named one of the top 10 most influential black Britons in the UK and won EY Entrepreneur of the Year, London and South.
He received a scholarship to attend the University of London and has a business degree from London Business School and a PhD in Economics. Philip Brown is a Managing Director and Head of Global Green and Social Bonds in Citi’s Capital Markets Origination business. He has been at Citi for 18 years and has been involved in the origination of more than 70 green and social bonds underwritten by Citi since the introduction of the Green Bond Principles (GHP) in 2014. Since early moves by the SSA (sovereign, supranational and agency) sector, Mr Brown has championed the issuance of green bonds by FIG, corporate and EM issuers across the globe. Mr Brown was involved in the initial drafting of the green bond principles in 2014, and was a delegate Representative for Citi on the Executive Committee from 2014-2016. Over the past year, he has been an active member of the GBP Social Bond working group. He is also a member of Citi’s Green & Social bond screening committee and works alongside Citi’s environmental banking, sustainability and environmental and social risk management teams to ensure that all green bonds led by Citi – one of the two GHP founding banks – are aligned with GHP guidelines.
Mr Brown is a member of Citi’s EMEA Climate Counsel, established in 2007, which seeks to advance environmental sustainability both in terms of reducing Citi’s own greenhouse gas emissions and sharing environmental product expertise across the firm. He joined Salomon Smith Barney from Nikko Europe in September 1998.
Sebastian Carneiro is Director of Energy Efficiency at SUSI Partners, a Swiss investment advisor that specialises in the financing of sustainable energy infrastructure. Mr Carneiro has several years of experience in structuring project finance deals, having arranged more than €500m in project finance loans.
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Before joining SUSI, he worked in the Energy & Infrastructure as well as Corporate Development departments of HSH Nordbank. He started his career as a consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Graduating in industrial engineering and management, Mr Carneiro is a CFA Charterholder. He studied at the University of Applied Sciences Wedel and the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration. Sir Ian Cheshire was appointed to the Board of Barclays UK as a non-executive Director in April 2017. He was appointed Group Chief Executive of Kingfisher from January 2008 and left the group in early 2015.
Before taking up this position, he was Chief Executive of B&Q. His previous roles at Kingfisher from 1998 onwards include Chief Executive of International and Development, Chief Executive of e-Kingfisher and Group Director of Strategy and Development. Before joining Kingfisher, Sir Ian worked for a series of large and small retail businesses over 15 years including Sears, owner of Selfridges. He has also been Chairman of the British Retail Consortium, Chairman of the Prince of Wales Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change and President of the Business Disability Forum President’s Group.
In addition, he chaired the Ecosystem Markets Task Force. Sir Ian retired as non-executive director of Bradford & Bingley eight years ago. Sir Ian has won a number of awards, including lifetime contributions to retailing, green business and the Fortune WEF award for leadership in the circular economy. Sir Ian was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to Business, Sustainability and the Environment He is a Chevalier of the Ordre National du Merite of France. His other current principal external appointments include Chairman of Debenhams, Chairman of Maisons du Monde, Senior Independent Director at Whitbread, Chairman of Menhaden and lead non-executive director for the UK government.
Allison Clark joined the MacArthur Foundation in 2006 to oversee investments made through Window of Opportunity, the Foundation’s $150m affordable rental housing preservation initiative. Since then, her responsibilities have expanded to include overall portfolio management for the Impact Investing program. Ms Clark has worked in affordable housing, economic development and commercial real estate for over 20 years.
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Prior to joining the Foundation, she worked as a senior underwriting manager in the Community Lending Group (formerly the American Communities Fund) at Fannie Mae, where she underwrote and closed more than $150m in debt and equity transactions for affordable housing developments. She also worked for eight years at Bank One in a variety of departments, including Commercial Real Estate and Community Development Real Estate. Before moving to Chicago, she participated in the Urban Fellows Program in New York City, where she worked as a project manager at the New York City Economic Development Corporation.
Recently, Ms Clark served on Attorney General Lisa Madigan's task force charged with creating and implementing a program to deploy $100m in grant funds from a national mortgage settlement aimed at addressing the foreclosure crisis. She also serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Foundation for Women and the Chicago Chess Foundation.
Ms Clark graduated from Harvard-Radcliffe College with a Bachelor’s degree in Government, and earned a Master of Management degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University with a concentration in Nonprofit Management and Real Estate.