Social Innovation Foresight #3 on Impact investing

23 March 2022 09:00-10:00

Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the reliance on market-based solutions to social and environmental problems around the world. The growth of impact investing is a vivid example of this trend. Different forms of investment solutions attract more private capital into investments that can help to make the society sustainable at the same time creating economic value.

In Social Innovation Foresight #3 we reflect and talk about impact investing. We look at the processes that drive the dual attainment of financial success and social impact across industries and sectors. What different forms of impact investing are there? What does the ecosystem look like? How do we measure and achieve impact? What are the main obstacles or key factors to succeed? What possibilities have we not yet harnessed? And what trends do we see around the corner?

Keynote Michele Giddens, Partner and Co-CEO at Bridges Fund Management Ltd. will give a short keynote followed by a reflection from Vikram Gandhi, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Then there will be a panel talk with Jenny Carenco, CEO, Founding Partner and Impact Manager at Prosper and Secretary of the Board of The Swedish National Advisory Board for Impact Investing, and Fredrik Persson, CEO at AB SLL Internfinans on the Swedish prerequisites on impact investing.

Time:
23 March, 09:00-10:00 AM CET

Place: The event is digital and will be broadcasted on our webpage https://socialinnovation.se/si/social-innovation-foresight

Social Innovation Foresight will be recorded and published on Forum for Social Innovation Sweden's Youtube channel.

Speakers and moderator

Michele Giddens
Partner, Co-CEO at Bridges Fund Management Ltd.

Michele Giddens co-founded Bridges Fund Management in 2002. She has over 25 years’ experience in sustainable and impact investing and international development finance. She chaired the UK National Advisory Board on Impact Investing from 2016-18 and is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of CDC. She also served on the Council of the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) from 2016-19.

Jenny Carenco
CEO, Founding Partner and Impact Manager at Prosper and Board member of The Swedish National Advisory Board for Impact Investing.

Jenny Carenco has been working with impact investments since 2016 when she founded Prosper, an impact investing advisory firm, that works both for investors (institutional and VC), the public sector (social, green and impact bonds) and entrepreneurial impact companies looking for funding. Jenny is also the Head of Operations and Secretary of the Board of the Swedish National Advisory Board for Impact Investing.

Fredrik Persson
CEO of AB SLL Internfinans

Fredrik is CEO of AB SLL Internfinans which is the internal bank of Region Stockholm responsible for funding, risk management and liquidity management. Between 2005 and 2021 he worked for three international banks based in London responsible for providing risk solutions to corporates in UK and the Nordics.

Vikram S. Gandhi
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School

Vikram S. Gandhi is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. He teaches in Sustainable Investing, in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program and Leadership & Corporate Accountability and FIELD Global Immersion. Vikram is a member of the Impact Co-Laboratory focusing on research in the area of Impact Investing. In addition, Vikram is the Founder of Asha Impact, an impact investing platform and is a Senior Advisor to The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. He has spent 23 years in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse.

Mia Odabas
Moderator

Mia Odabas is a graduate in Business and Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics, who is obsessed with smart conversations. After 15 years of moderation, she knows that it is only when we succeed in creating smart conversations that smart solutions are born. Mia Odabas has worked as a financial reporter since the early 90s and has written for Svenska Dagbladet, Sydsvenskan, Dagens Industri, Veckans Affärer and other business press. In 2014, Mia and some colleagues started Smarta samtal - www.smartasamtal.se

Organizers

Malmö University

Speakers and moderator

Michele GiddensPartner, Co-CEO at Bridges Fund Management Ltd.

Jenny CarencoCEO, Founding Partner and Impact Manager at Prosper and Board member of The Swedish National Advisory Board for Impact Investing.

Fredrik PerssonCEO of AB SLL Internfinans