George Serafeim is the Faculty Lead of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project and the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has taught courses in the MBA, executive education and doctoral programs, and is currently teaching the elective course “Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems” in the MBA curriculum, which received the Ideas Worth Teaching Award from the Aspen Institute and the Grand Page Prize. He has presented his research in over 60 countries around the world, including to world leaders in government and business at events such as the World Economic Forum at Davos and the Aspen Ideas Festival. He ranks among the top 20 most popular authors out of over 12,000 business authors on the Social Science Research Network.

Rob is the Director and Senior Researcher for The Impact-Weighted Accounts Project and the Social Impact Collaboratory at Harvard Business School. Previously, Rob was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs where he had roles in Investment Product Innovation, Strategy & Development, Alternative Investment Strategies, and Private Wealth Management. Rob has consulted with the National MS Society and the World Wildlife Fund and was a 2019 Three Cairns Climate Fellow focused on mitigating the environmental effects of charcoal use in Mozambique. Rob received his MBA from Columbia Business School in the Executive Program where he concentrated on Social Enterprise and Impact Investing, graduating Deans Honors with Distinction (top 10%). He was featured in Poets and Quants annual 100 Best & Brightest Executive MBAs list. Rob is the 2019 recipient of the Carson Family Changemaker Award which recognizes commitment to the field of social enterprise. Rob earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Georgetown University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.

David Freiberg is a Research Associate at Harvard Business School. David’s research focuses on corporate performance and societal impact. His work addresses the societal issues of climate change, corporate purpose, inequality, resource scarcity and automation in the context of accounting standards, target setting, corporate structure, asset allocation and innovation. Additionally, his research examines how investors across asset classes utilize sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) data to make investment decisions to achieve both superior risk-adjusted returns and sustained societal impact. David has contributed to work published in top academic journals and has authored numerous Harvard Business School case studies on a wide variety of topics and industries. David graduated from Middlebury College, where he studied Economics (Honors) and graduated Cum Laude.

Katie is a Research Associate for the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project. Prior to joining the team, she worked with accelerators, social enterprises, institutional investors, and field-building organizations addressing global challenges through market-based approaches. Katie’s earlier work included HIV prevention and control, global health finance, and human resources for health. She earned a Master of International Business from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a Bachelor’s from Brown University where she focused on Development Studies and Global Health. Katie is driven by the IWA’s goal to think creatively and rigorously about the integration of impact metrics within corporate financial accounts, and believes the project will contribute to adoptable and scalable solutions.

Dong Gi (DG) Park is a researcher for the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at Harvard Business School. Previously, DG was a financial analyst at M&T Bank, where he completed the year-long management development program. DG earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Asian Studies from Williams College, graduating Cum Laude with the Linen Senior Prize in Asian Studies. Conversationally fluent in English, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese, DG aspires to be a global business leader who focuses on delivering concrete solutions to improve the quality of life for marginalized populations.

Katie is a Research Associate for the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project. Previously, Katie was a Senior Consultant at Oliver Wyman. Her project experience has included work in promoting healthier consumer purchasing behavior with over twenty retailers and manufacturers as well as data migration and project management for post-merger integrations in aviation. As a Fellow with TechnoServe Ethiopia, Katie created the organization’s in-country environmental strategy and promoted farmer livelihood interventions that reduced deforestation of the last indigenous forest in Ethiopia. Katie attended Dartmouth College where she was magna cum laude and earned the Lewis H. Haney Prize for Best Thesis in Economics. She graduated with High Honors with a B.A. in Economics in 2016.

Sir Ronald Cohen is a pioneering philanthropist, venture capitalist, private equity investor, and social innovator, who is driving forward the global Impact Revolution.

For nearly two decades, his ground-breaking initiatives have catalyzed global efforts to drive private capital to serve social and environmental good.

He serves as Chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and The Portland Trust. He is a co-founder of Social Finance UK, USA, and Israel; and co-founder Chair of Bridges Fund Management and former co-founding Chair of Big Society Capital.

He chaired the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce (2013-2015), the UK Social Investment Task Force (2000-2010) and the UK’s Commission on Unclaimed Assets (2005-2007).

In 2012 he received the Rockefeller Foundation’s Innovation Award for Social Finance.

He was a co-founder and Executive Chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide LLP (1972-2005), a global private equity firm. He was a co-founder and Chairman of the British Venture Capital Association and a co-founder of the European Venture Capital Association.

He is a member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors at Harvard Business School; a former director of the Harvard Management Company; and formerly a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers and the University of Oxford Investment Committee.

He graduated from Oxford University, where he was President of the Oxford Union. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School to which he was awarded a Henry Fellowship.

Sir Ronald was born in Egypt and left as a refugee at the age of 11, when his family came to the UK.

Clara is currently serving as Chief Executive of the Impact Management Project: a forum for building global consensus on how to measure and manage impact. As a Partner at Bridges Fund Management, Clara previously led the firm’s impact strategy throughout the investment cycle and across fund types – from defining the strategy and process for selecting investments, to engaging with portfolio companies to create additional value through environmental and social factors, to tracking and reporting results to our investors and other stakeholders. In addition to growing impact through Bridges’ funds, Clara also led Bridges Impact+’s research and development efforts to promote the growth of the wider sustainable and impact investment sector.

Prior to Bridges, Clara focused her career on investing in innovative high-impact businesses – most recently on the management team of an India-based healthcare chain and Acumen portfolio company. Clara previously worked for Acumen’s Capital Markets team in New York where she played a lead role in designing an innovative investment vehicle and later co-led the Acumen energy portfolio in India. Before Acumen, Clara worked in Colombia, promoting socially responsible investment.

Clara holds a BA (Hons) in Greats from Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD.