Jed Emerson

Jed is a widely recognized, international practitioner and thought leader on impact investing, performance metrics and sustainable finance. As originator of the term blended value, he has spent over two decades exploring how capital investment strategies may be executed to create multiple returns. Jed is a strategic advisor to three family offices where he serves on investment committees and helps guide Total Portfolio approaches to wealth management. He also serves as Chief Impact Strategist for the financial services group, ImpactAssets. Emerson has held faculty appointments at Harvard, Stanford and Oxford business schools and has written extensively on impact investing, social return on investment, and related areas. As founding director of both Larkin Street Services and the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF), a founding board member of Pacific Community Ventures and the first senior fellow at Generation Investment Management, he has spent a career helping expand capital options for asset owners.