30 October 2024 | New York
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SPEAKERS
LEARN FROM SUSTAINABILITY & IMPACT INVESTING PIONEERS!
Impact Summit America invites global leaders, pioneers and experts of the impact & sustainable investing universe to share their knowledge and inspiration. Our programme focuses on the impact investments, offering experienced impact investors the stage to share best practices & know-how with their industry peers.
2024
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS & HOST
Pedro Antonio Guazo Alonso
Representative of the Secretary-General for investments and assets,United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF)
Frank Altman
Forbes Author, A New Capitalism: Creating A Just Economy That Works for All;Founder, Community Reinvestment Fund, USA
Laura Weeks
Senior Responsible Investment Manager,Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
CHAIR OF THE DAY
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Pedro Antonio Guazo Alonso
Representative of the Secretary-General for investments and assets,
United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF)
With over 10 years of experience in high level management positions in the United Nations system, together with more than 17 years of experience in the private and public sectors, Mr. Guazo brings a balance of deep knowledge of the United Nations system and expertise in national, regional and global practices for financial and pension fund systems.
During a 15-year banking career, he contributed to the modernization of the Mexican Financial System, while serving as its regulator and supervisor. As Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Treasurer at the Federal Mortgage Bank of Mexico (2008-2010), he negotiated and managed loans from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. He championed financial inclusion among people with low and middle incomes as CFO and Treasurer of the National Savings and Financial Services Bank of Mexico (2001-2008). His government service included posts at the Ministry of Finance (1999-2001) and at the National Banking and Securities Commission (1996-1999), as a member of its Financial Sector Supervisory Body. He started his professional career in 1993 at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
A former professor of Finance at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mr. Guazo received an International Executive MBA from the Instituto de Empresa Business School in Madrid. He earned a master's degree in Business Economics from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and graduated from ITAM in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in Accounting.
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Frank Altman
Forbes Author, A New Capitalism: Creating A Just Economy That Works for All;
Founder, Community Reinvestment Fund, USA
He is the Founder and former CEO of Community Reinvestment Fund, USA, an innovative national Community Development Financial Institution committed to collaborating with others to fill gaps in access to capital and grow the capability of the industry. In partnership with a network of community partners, CRF has funded nearly $4 billion in loans to small businesses, community facilities, charter schools, and affordable housing projects in forty-nine states.
Altman is a founding member and first President of the Board of Directors of the New Markets Tax Credit Coalition and helped spearhead the creation of a federal tax credit to encourage private investment in low-income communities. He is a member of the Center for Community Development Investors at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and an advisor to the Social Innovation Initiative at Brown University.
Laura Weeks
Senior Responsible Investment Manager,
Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
CHAIR OF THE DAY
Laura has responsibility for supporting and engaging with East Coast signatories in their advancement of Responsible Investing initiatives. She is also tasked with the development of local ecosystems, convening regional communities of practice of investors, policy makers and other stakeholders – providing a connection point for the groups and platforms that already play a convening role in the region and supporting further collaboration.
Laura has over 18 years of experience in the finance industry, working in client relationship management roles supporting institutional investors. Prior to joining the PRI, she spent 15 years at Acadian Asset Management in various roles focused on relationship management, strategic initiatives, and on working groups committed to ESG advancement and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Before joining Acadian, Laura supported global business development efforts at Wellington Management Company.
Laura obtained her B.A. in International Relations from Boston University and her MBA from Simmons University. Laura has also achieved the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing.
FEATURED SPEAKERS 2024
Allie Barry
Vice President,J.P. Morgan Development Finance Institution
Amantia Muhedini
Executive Director, Sustainable & Impact Investing Strategist,UBS Wealth Management Chief Investment Office
Ander Iruretagoyena
Vice President- Funds & Co-Investments,Impact Engine
Andrew Behar
CEO,As You Sow
Beth Collins
Managing Director, Impact Investing,Catholic Relief Services
Chantal Hermans
COO,Phenix Capital Group
Cynthia Muller
Director Mission Driven Investment,W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Carol Tarr
Impact Measurement and Management Lead,Phenix Capital Group
Enith Williams
Executive Director,Reparations Finance Lab
Pedro Henriques da Silva
Director,Shifting Trillions, the Sierra Club Foundation (SCF)
Joshua Torres
Manager, Sustainable FinanceEnvironmental Defense Fund
Jyoti Aggarwala
Principal,Private Capital Raise
Karen Sunderam
Investment Strategist,ImpactAssets Capital Partners
Kunal Doshi
Chief Investment Officer,Accelerate Investment Group
Lisette Cooper, PhD, CFA
Vice Chair,Fiduciary Trust International
Mark Hays
Director of Sustainable & Impact Investing,Glenmede
Rajith Sebastian
Head of ESG and Sustainable Investing ,New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF)
Richard E. Zimmerman
Partner,WE Family Offices
Sunit Shah
Vice President,Private Equity Partnerships
Tara Roth
President,Goldhirsh Foundation
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Allie Barry
Vice President,
J.P. Morgan Development Finance Institution
In her role, Allie is responsible for deal origination, structuring, investor syndication and overall business development. Allie is also a member of the Impact Disclosure Taskforce. Allie joined J.P. Morgan as a part of the firm’s Management Associate Program, a leadership development program.
Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Allie worked as an associate at Glade Brook Capital, a global investment firm that invests in emerging leaders in the internet and software sectors through its growth equity and private credit strategies.
Allie holds a Masters in Business Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science in International Politics from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
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Amantia Muhedini
Executive Director, Sustainable & Impact Investing Strategist,
UBS Wealth Management Chief Investment Office
Prior to joining UBS, Amantia was a Sustainable Investing Fellow with Morgan Stanley’s Investing with Impact Wealth Management team. She also spent time at Working Capital – The Supply Chain Innovation Fund, conducting impact and commercial due diligence.
Amantia started her career as an Investments Associate with the Omidyar’s Group Humanity United, where she helped design and implement a strategy to address forced labor in global corporate supply chains. Amantia is a Board Director for United World Colleges International (UWC), a global education organization, and was a founding board member and acting Executive Director for UWC in Albania.
Amantia holds a BA from Princeton University and a MPA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
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Ander Iruretagoyena
Vice President- Funds & Co-Investments,
Impact Engine
Prior to joining Impact Engine, Ander was an investment banking associate at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, working with Latin American corporations. During these years, Ander worked on a total of 17 transactions for $10.7B across 4 products, 9 industries and 6 geographies. Ander also previously worked on financial inclusion strategies at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Ander holds a BA in Economics as well as Latin American Studies from the University of Chicago, and earned his MBA degree from the Chicago Booth School of Business.
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Andrew Behar
CEO,
As You Sow
With a 30-year track record of success, As You Sow advances values-aligned investing and uses shareholder power to compel companies to reduce material risk on issues including climate change; toxins in the food system; ocean plastics; diversity, equity, and inclusion; racial justice; and wage equity.
Previously Andrew was a documentary filmmaker and entrepreneur founding start-ups that developed innovative physiological monitoring devices and grid-scale fuel cells.
He is an inventor on five patents and was recently named as one of the Purposeful-50 “true changemakers who deliver on social justice, environmental protection, diversity, inclusion, racial equality, and gender and pay equity.” He is currently on the Sustainable Media Center Board of Advisors. He is the author of the book, The Shareholders Action Guide: Unleash Your Hidden Powers to Hold Corporations Accountable, published by Berrett-Koehler.
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Beth Collins
Managing Director, Impact Investing,
Catholic Relief Services
A leading global humanitarian and development agency, CRS reaches over 130 million people across more than 110 countries. Beth oversees CRS' multi-prong impact investing strategy and serves as Chair of Azure Source Capital, LLC, a financing vehicle developed by CRS to expand communities' access to water services in Latin America.
Beth has a 30-year executive career with global experience spanning corporate and nonprofit sectors throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Latin America.
Beth holds a B.A. in International Studies from Miami University and an MBA in Finance from NYC.
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Chantal Hermans
COO,
Phenix Capital Group
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Cynthia Muller
Director Mission Driven Investment,
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Prior to joining the foundation, Muller developed and managed Arabella Advisors impact investing practice where she helped foundations and individuals understand the field of impact investing and developed strategies and structure investments to accomplish their social and environmental goals. During her tenure she oversaw deal sourcing and structuring of investments in health, education, microfinance, housing and green technology—both domestically and internationally. Muller also led several evaluations of impact investment portfolios, and she regularly presented and blogged about trends and practices within the field.
Muller previously led strategic initiatives at Capital Impact Partners, where she developed and managed impact investments and worked on nationally focused investment funds and initiatives targeting health, food, education, energy efficiency and economic development. Cynthia serves on the boards of Groundswell and Enterprise Community Loan Fund.
Muller holds a Master of Business Administration from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington and a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Stanford University.
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Carol Tarr
Impact Measurement and Management Lead,
Phenix Capital Group
She has a Master’s degree from Harvard University in Religious Studies where she specialized in World Religions with a focus on Ethics. She is from Chicago, USA and lives in Amsterdam.
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Enith Williams
Executive Director,
Reparations Finance Lab
Early in her career, she was a Program Associate, with the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation where she worked on a multi-stakeholder program to address homelessness in New York City. She then moved on to work with the New York City Housing Partnership in its groundbreaking programme to engage with local entrepreneurs to secure their participation in the economic revitalization that was underway in Central Harlem and the South Bronx in the early 1990s.
As a native of Jamaica, and an immigrant to the United States, Enith has lived and worked in both countries throughout her professional career and has seen and experienced first-hand the impact of the capital markets and financial decision making on economically disadvantaged individuals, communities and countries.
She hopes to utilize this unique insight into crafting a new area of exploration at 17 Asset Management around closing the Black-White wealth gap by reconnecting the history and economics of the African Slave Trade, and the involvement of the global financial markets in that endeavour. She hopes to engage with thought leaders and market players to craft new solutions that can positively impact on the wealth disparity that continues to exist for the descendants of that horrific trade.
mEnith is the Founder of the Downtown Kingston Music Theatre, a social intervention programme that uses musical theatre to engage the youth of the inner-city communities of Downtown Kingston. She is a published author of short stories and poems based on her memories of growing up in rural Jamaica and her lived experience as a mother, and woman of African ancestry.
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Pedro Henriques da Silva
Director,
Shifting Trillions, the Sierra Club Foundation (SCF)
Rooted in his current role, foundation in social science, and formative personal background, Pedro works to help move capital towards a healthy planet for all. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Reed College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and completed the General Course at the London School of Economics (LSE).
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Joshua Torres
Manager, Sustainable Finance
Environmental Defense Fund
He has 8 years of experience in managing sustainability projects across 4 industries in different geographies.
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Jyoti Aggarwala
Principal,
Private Capital Raise
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Karen Sunderam
Investment Strategist,
ImpactAssets Capital Partners
Karen brings over 16 years of investment industry experience including serving as a municipal investment banker at Morgan Stanley and UBS where she helped debt finance tens of billions of dollars of infrastructure projects spanning education, affordable housing, clean water and safe transportation. Most recently, she served as the Head of Inclusive Investing within the wealth management division at UBS where she launched a platform for clients to apply a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens to their investment portfolios across all asset classes. Karen is also a proud alumnus of Teach For America and taught middle school math in the Bronx, NY.
Karen has a BA in Psychology from the University of British Columbia and an MS in Elementary Education from Lehman College. Karen serves on the advisory board for the Diverse Investing Collective.
Kunal Doshi
Chief Investment Officer,
Accelerate Investment Group
Prior to Capricorn, Kunal was at Greentech Capital Advisors, an Investment Bank acquired by Nomura, where he focused on projects in the energy and sustainability sector. He began his career on Wall Street as an Investment Banking Analyst within Citigroup’s Mergers & Acquisitions team. During his tenure at Greentech and Citigroup, he successfully raised over $1 billion in capital for the sustainable global infrastructure sector. Kunal briefly served as a delegate to The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. He continues to serve on various boards including a non-profit, Brighter Children.
Kunal earned his Master's Degree at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and his Bachelor’s Degree from the McIntire School of Commerce at The University of Virginia.
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Lisette Cooper, PhD, CFA
Vice Chair,
Fiduciary Trust International
Dr. Cooper and her Athena Capital colleagues have been pioneers in the fields of impact investing and socially responsible investing (SRI), having helped clients align their investment portfolios with their social values since 2005. In addition, Athena Capital’s longstanding headquarters in suburban Boston has given Fiduciary Trust International a strong regional foothold in New England, expanding its national footprint. In 2019, Athena Capital was named one of the “Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts” by The Boston Globe.
Prior to establishing Athena Capital, Dr. Cooper served as manager of consulting services for Barra Inc., now MSCI Barra, where she and her team specialized in modeling risk and developing investment solutions for institutional investors. She also worked as a senior strategist at Merrill Lynch, where she analyzed, designed and marketed innovative securities to institutional investors. Dr. Cooper was honored by InvestmentNews in 2017 as one of the publication’s “Women to Watch,” and she served as an expert in residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab from 2015 to 2017.
Dr. Cooper, who holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation, earned her PhD from Harvard University and received her bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University. She is a member of the board of directors of the Boston Youth Sanctuary and a board member and fellow of the Mind & Life Institute. Dr. Cooper is also a member of the Alumni Council of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and she serves on the advisory board for numerous other charitable organizations.
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Mark Hays
Director of Sustainable & Impact Investing,
Glenmede
Previously, Mr. Hays served as Vice President of Sustainable Investing for J.P. Morgan Asset Management. In this role, he developed an enhanced ESG integration framework and led its implementation for more than 25 investment teams, while helping to create and launch three sustainable investment strategies. Before this role, he served as Vice President of Impact Investments for Flat World Partners, where he oversaw a team responsible for sourcing, investment due diligence, impact analysis, and recommendation of opportunities for sustainable thematic portfolios representing over $1 billion in institutional capital. Mark started his career at Cambridge Associates, serving endowments and foundations on portfolio construction.
Mark is a Board Member & Treasurer for Believe in Students, a national charity, and a member of the Sustainable Investing Leadership Team for the CFA Society. Mr. Hays holds an M.B.A. from London Business School and a B.S. from Wake Forest University.
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Rajith Sebastian
Head of ESG and Sustainable Investing ,
New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF)
Additionally, he worked as a Director in Investment Banking Coverage at Standard Chartered Bank, as an Assistant Vice President at ChinaVest, and as an Executive at Macquarie Bank. Rajith’s career began at Monitor Deloitte (formerly Monitor Group) as a Consultant. Overall, Rajith's work experience demonstrates his expertise in ESG investing and their ability to succeed in various roles within the financial industry
.Rajith holds a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree in Finance and Management from The Wharton School, which was earned from 2015 to 2017. Prior to that, he completed his Bachelors degree in Business Science with Honors in Finance and Marketing from the University of Cape Town from 2000 to 2003. Additionally, he has obtained the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder certification from the CFA Institute in September 2014.
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Richard E. Zimmerman
Partner,
WE Family Offices
Richard is a recognized speaker in the Impact Investing arena and works with some of the world’s wealthiest families helping them align their values to their investments. He has spoken at over 25 conferences, including the UN Sustainable Investing Conference, Barron’s ESG and Impact Summit, Opal’s Impact Investment Forum, and Responsible Investing. He has a positive and pragmatic speaking approach and uses real world examples to illustrate how sophisticated investors can invest with impact.
Richard has held senior positions at global banks and multi-family offices as well as board positions at philanthropic organizations. He is a Board Director at the Capital Institute and has served on the Ceres President’s Council, the Earth Charter Initiative International Council, and the Earth Institute Leadership Council.
Richard has a Master of Science in Sustainability Management from Columbia University and a B.A. from the University of Virginia. He holds a Sustainable Investment Professional Certification (SIPC) with the John Molson School of Business as well as numerous financial industry designations. He is a published author of “What Can I Do to Make a Difference,” Penguin Books USA, a guide to environmental and social issues and individual actions to make positive change.
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Sunit Shah
Vice President,
Private Equity Partnerships
Prior to joining Blue Earth, he was a Director at The Rockefeller Foundation where he led impact investments across the climate landscape. Prior to that, he was a consultant in Bain & Company’s New York office focused on strategy work for Fortune 100 clients across industries. Previously, he was an Investment Analyst at the International Finance Corporation (Funds, Venture Capital) and a Senior Investment Analyst at Prudential Financial (Alternative Assets).
He holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. He is also a CFA Charterholder.
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Tara Roth
President,
Goldhirsh Foundation
Tara began her career in marketing and business development for NBCinternet and Infoseek. She has worked with organizations such as Participant Media, and the New Schools Venture Fund. As a senior advisor to GOOD, Tara helped launch the Pepsi Refresh Project.
Tara received a bachelor’s degree at Cornell University, and has an MBA from Oxford University where she was awarded a Skoll scholarship in social entrepreneurship.
Tara is a member of the L.A. Sustainability Leadership Council, the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator Advisory Council, the Lyft City Works Advisory Council, the 2023 Zócalo Book Prize selection committee, and is a judge of the 2021 and 2022 Anthem Awards. Tara serves on the board of the Ad Council, AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles, Good Mvmt, and UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture. She previously sat on the board of Southern California Grantmakers, USC’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, regional advisory boards of Opportunity Fund and 826LA, and was a Senior Fellow at USC’s Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab. In 2024, Tara was named one of the 500 Most Influential People in Los Angeles, by the Los Angeles Business Journal.
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IN THE COMPANY OF THOUGHT LEADERS
Al Gore
Former Vice President of the United StatesAnita Bhatia
Former Assistant Secretary - General & Deputy Executive Director,UN Women
Sir Ronald Cohen
Chair,The Global Steering Group (GSG)
Ndileka Mandela
Founder and CEO,Thembekile Mandela Foundation
Matt Damon
Co-founder,WaterEquity and Water.org
Scilla Elworthy
Peace Builder, Three-time Nobel Prize NomineeMark Mobius
CEO,Mobius Capital Partners
Eva Halvarsson
CEO,AP2
Eduard van Gelderen
Chief Investment Officer,PSP Investments
Anna Snider
Managing Director and Head of Due Diligence for the Chief Investment Office,Bank of America Corporation
Amit Bouri
CEO & Co-founder,The GIIN
Fran Seegull
President,U.S. Impact Investing Alliance
Roger Havenith
Deputy CEO, The European Investment FundHazel Henderson D.Sc.Hon., FRSA,
Founder, Ethical Markets Media,Certified B Corporation
Hartwig Liersch
Chief Investment Officer,Pensioenfonds Metaal en Techniek
Jennifer Morris
CEO,The Nature Conservancy
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Anita Bhatia
Former Assistant Secretary - General & Deputy Executive Director,
UN Women
Before that, Ms. Bhatia served since 2014 as the Director for Development Partner Relations at the World Bank Group. Previously, she held the position of Director of Partnerships and Advisory Services Operations (2011–2014) and Global Head of Knowledge at the International Finance Corporation (2010-2011).
Ms. Bhatia also served as Head of IFC’s Latin America Advisory Operations. In addition to Latin America, she has worked in Africa, Europe, Central Asia, and South and East Asia. Ms. Anita Bhatia brings extensive experience in the area of strategic partnerships, resource mobilization, and management. During her time at the IFC, she developed and expanded innovative partnerships with public and private sector partners to support its strategy in key areas, including fragile and conflict-affected states, gender equality, financial inclusion, support to women-owned businesses, and other priorities critical for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Ms. Bhatia holds a BA in History from Calcutta University, an MA in Political Science from Yale University, and a Juris Doctor in Law from Georgetown University.
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Sir Ronald Cohen
Chair,
The Global Steering Group (GSG)
Ndileka, having more than 15 years’ experience in the medical field, leads the Thembekile Mandela Foundation, which focuses on health, education and youth development in South Africa's rural villages. She recently participated in a panel at COP28 entitled "Strategies in Climate Financing; Empowering Sustainable Development in Africa", where she called for an end to "climate apartheid".
Ndileka's philanthropic ethos also shines through her involvement with the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital. Beyond her contributions to healthcare, Ndileka's leadership extends to impactful community projects, including the transformation of Clarkebury High School. She is also a council member for the Nelson Mandela Museum and a Global Fund Champion for HIV, TB, and malaria.
Through her memoir, "I am Ndileka," she shares her remarkable journey, inspiring others to embrace their own potential for change.
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Matt Damon
Co-founder,
WaterEquity and Water.org
Inspired during international travel with his family throughout Mexico and Guatemala as a youth, Matt has long been devoted to environmental and social issues. Learning about the immense challenges of accessing safe water and sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Matt decided to create the H20 Africa Foundation. In 2009, he teamed up with Gary White to join their organizations and launch Water.org.
For his work as Co-founder of Water.org, Matt, along with fellow Water.org Co-founder Gary, was recognized as one of the TIME 100 most influential people in the world in 2011 and received the Environmental Media Award from The Environmental Media Association in 2013. In 2014, the World Economic Forum named Matt as the Crystal Award winner for his work through Water.org. Matt’s active participation in his organization’s work, including site visits to multiple countries, strategy development, advocacy, and high-level meetings with institutions like the World Bank and the World Economic Forum over the past decade, has positioned him as one of the world’s experts on water and sanitation issues.
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Scilla Elworthy
Peace Builder, Three-time Nobel Prize Nominee
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Eva Halvarsson
CEO,
AP2
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Eduard van Gelderen
Chief Investment Officer,
PSP Investments
Prior to joining PSP Investments, Eduard was senior managing director at the office of the chief investment officer of the University of California. As a member of the executive team, his primary responsibilities included overseeing the University’s retirement plan, heading up equity and real assets activities, and handling strategic partnerships in Europe. He also served as CEO of the Dutch financial service provider APG Asset Management and as deputy CIO of ING Investment Management.
Eduard is a certified financial risk manager and a chartered financial analyst and has served on several investment advisory boards. He holds a master’s degree in quantitative finance from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a post-graduate degree in asset liability management from Maastricht University in Limburg. He is currently a PhD candidate at the International School of Management in Paris. Eduard began his career as an investment banker in London and Amsterdam.
![Anna Snider](https://impactevents.phenixcapitalgroup.com/hubfs/Event%20information/ISA%20content/ISA%20speakers/Anna%20Snider.jpg)
![Amit Bouri](https://impactevents.phenixcapitalgroup.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Amit+Bouri+1-1.jpg?width=445&height=446&name=Amit+Bouri+1-1.jpg)
Amit Bouri
CEO & Co-founder,
The GIIN
![FRAN SEEGULL](https://impactevents.phenixcapitalgroup.com/hs-fs/hubfs/1516258119188.jpg?width=445&height=445&name=1516258119188.jpg)
Fran Seegull
President,
U.S. Impact Investing Alliance
Fran was the Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director of Investments at ImpactAssets where she headed investment management for The Giving Fund—an impact investing donor advised fund. She also oversaw product development for and managed the Global Sustainable Agriculture and Microfinance Plus Notes.
Prior to joining ImpactAssets, Fran was Managing Director at Funk Ventures, an early-stage impact venture capital and acceleration firm. She also served as Vice President of Business Development at Novica, an online retailer of products made by artisans in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Fran has consulted to National Geographic and NPR West as well as a number of family foundations and offices.
Fran has a BS in Economics from Barnard College at Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She serves on the Investment Committee of Align Impact. Previously, Fran taught a graduate-level course on impact investing at USC’s Marshall School of Business and served on the Investment Committee of the Goldhirsh Foundation and on the G7 Social Impact Investment Task Force Working Group on Asset Allocation. She tweets on impact investing at @franseegull.
![Hazel Henderson D.Sc.Hon., FRSA,](https://impactevents.phenixcapitalgroup.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Event%20images/Speakers/Hazel-H-300x300%202.jpg?width=445&height=445&name=Hazel-H-300x300%202.jpg)
Hazel Henderson D.Sc.Hon., FRSA, founder of Ethical Markets Media, Certified B Corporation. She is a world-renowned futurist, active environmentalist, syndicated columnist, and author of award-winning Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006); Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age (2014), and other books in 800 libraries, in 20 languages, including “Planetary Citizenship “co-authored by Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda. Ethical Markets is the publisher of Henderson’s forthcoming textbook, “Mapping the Global Green Transition: 2009-2020“.
She is the producer of the global TV series “Transforming Finance“ and the Ethical Markets TV series. She created in 2004 the EthicMark® Awards for Communications Uplifting the Human Spirit & Society, showcasing positive messages to raise the ethical bar on global advertising and in 2009 the annual Green Transition Scoreboard®.
She launched the EthicMarkGEMS®.com, the first global standard certifying only gems NOT mined from Mother Earth, to phase out unnecessary global gem mining, now chemically- identical gems are cheaply available worldwide and also co-created Ethical Biomimicry Finance®. Henderson served as a cabinet-level science policy advisor to the US Office of Technology Assessment, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Engineering.
Her over 400 articles appear in Harvard Business Review, New York Times, LeMonde Diplomatique, and journals in Japan, Britain, Venezuela, China, France, Australia. Honorary Member of the Club of Rome, Fellow of Britain’s Royal Society for Arts and of The World Academy of Art & Science, Henderson shared the 1996 Global Citizen Award with Argentinian Nobelist Pérez Esquivel. She has many honorary degrees.
![Jennifer Morris](https://impactevents.phenixcapitalgroup.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Morris%20headshot_Feb%202021%20new.jpg?width=445&height=445&name=Morris%20headshot_Feb%202021%20new.jpg)
Jennifer Morris
CEO,
The Nature Conservancy