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Impact Investing: Profit and Purpose
- 4 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Starts on November 30, 2018
- Ends on December 28, 2018
Course details
Syllabus
- The financial instruments and techniques used to fund social enterprises
- Impact measurement components, tools and frameworks
- The current market trends and key players of the impact investing ecosystem
- The current challenges in impact investing and how to unlock opportunities to invest in social and environmental impact
Prerequisite
This course is for both financial and social sector professionals interested to learn more about the promise and potential for impact investing.
Instructors
Jeremy Wade
Jeremy is the Founding Director of the Jindal Centre for Social Innovation + Entrepreneurship (JSiE), an award-winning social impact centre at O.P. Jindal Global University.
Kartik Desai
Kartik, a pioneer in the impact investment industry, is the Executive Director of Asha Impact, one of India's leading impact investment and policy advocacy platforms.
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The Jindal Centre for Social Innovation + Entrepreneurship (JSiE) at O.P. Jindal Global University is a global social impact centre. JSiE works to strengthen the capacity for social innovation in North India and joins a global network of actors working to enable higher education institutions, their students, faculty, and alumni to address the 21st century’s most pressing challenges. By building bridges between socially responsible leaders around the world for innovative teaching, startup incubation, and social impact research, JSiE aims to spur more inclusive economic growth and development in India and globally.
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