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Navigating New Horizons: A Conversation on Impact Investing with Jed Emerson
Join Impact Entrepreneur for an insightful exploration with Jed Emerson, a leading voice in impact investing. This Deep Dive session will cover not only the potential for expanding investment impact at scale but also the pivotal challenges and transformations within the field. Drawing on Jed’s deep reservoir of knowledge and experience, participants will engage in a robust discussion about the evolving dynamics of impact investing. Explore strategic pathways for scaling investments and innovative approaches that merge financial returns with profound social and environmental benefits. This interactive session encourages participants to question, debate, and deepen their understanding of how impact investing can meet global challenges while adapting to an ever-changing investment landscape. Join us to challenge conventional approaches and explore new possibilities in impact investing.
Deep Dives are hour-long Zoom Meetings: Live Q&A Sessions (as opposed to our Zoom Webinars, where the audience is in View-Only Mode) between the featured guest(s) and our members and readers. Be sure to come bearing questions!
Jed Emerson’s leadership on impact investing has influenced the sector from its very beginning. He has co-authored seven books, including “Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference,” a Nautilus Gold Book Award winner and the first book on impact investing, and authored “The Purpose of Capital: Elements of Impact, Financial Flows and Natural Being.”
He is a frequent speaker at conferences, including appearances at The World Economic Forum and Clinton Global Initiative. Jed is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Social Investment at Heidelberg University (Germany) and the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth at the University of Zurich and has held faculty appointments at Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford business schools. He has taught social entrepreneurship at Kellogg Business School, Harvard Business School, and NYU-Abu Dhabi.
In addition to his role at AlTi, Jed is Senior Fellow with ImpactAssets, a nonprofit financial services firm. He has founded and co-founded some of the nation’s leading impact investing, venture philanthropy, community venture capital and social enterprises. Jed was strategic advisor to investments for five family offices with over $1.4 billion in total assets, executing 100 percent impact/sustainable investment strategies with their total net worth.
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