Finance for the Future
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About Finance of the Future
Do you believe that many social challenges can be solved by reshaping the finance industry? Do you think that the finance industry has lost its social conscience - or never had one to begin with? Do you think social finance sounds too good to be true?
Whether you’re a finance student or someone fascinated by the potential that finance holds, this is the event for you. Join Prosper Social Finance for an evening of talks by global leaders (list below) who are working to better the world of the future by using finance today. Discussion will centre around social finance, profit for purpose and the role that social finance can play in solving some of the world’s most pressing issues.
The event will be split into two parts. First, you will have the chance to listen to some world-class speakers who have made it their mission to challenge perceptions. This will be followed by drinks, where you can network with peers and industry professionals and discuss how we can finance a better world, together.
Tickets for the event are free, but please be sure to register your interest with the link below! Don’t miss out on your chance to Prosper!
List of speakers
1. Cary Krosinsky, Lecturer, Yale and Brown University
Cary is an educator, author, and advisor on the nexus of business, sustainable investment strategy, and financial value.
Cary teaches at Yale University's undergraduate college, and has given seminars on Business & Sustainability, and Innovation & Sustainability, and engages in graduate-level teaching on Climate and International Energy.
He also teaches the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Investing at Brown University, helping support the Sustainable Investment Fund within the Brown Endowment, and has been an MBA Lecturer at Concordia and Maryland and helped lead and design the RFK Sustainable Investing program at Columbia's Earth Institute.
Cary is a co-founder of the Sustainable Finance Institute (SFI), a global education think tank based in New York, and is also Director and Co-Founder of the Carbon Tracker Initiative. His written books include "Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long-Term Performance" (2008), "Evolutions in Sustainable Investing" (2011), and "Sustainable Investing: Revolutions in Theory and Practice" (2016).
Ongoing engagements include those with the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets, the Journal of Environmental Investing, NPV Associates, BlueSky Investment Management, Real Impact Tracker, Carbon Tracker Initiative, and Wilshire Associates.
2. Merryn Somerset Webb, Editor-in-chief, MoneyWeek
Merryn Somerset Webb started her career in Tokyo at public broadcaster NHK before becoming a Japanese equity broker at what was then Warburgs. She went on to work at SBC and then UBS without moving from her desk in Kamiyacho (it was the age of mergers).
After five years in Japan she returned to work in the UK at Paribas. This soon became BNP Paribas. Again no desk move was required. On leaving the City, Merryn helped The Week magazine with its City pages before becoming the launch editor of MoneyWeek in 2000.
16 years on, MoneyWeek is the best-selling financial magazine in the UK and Merryn remains as its editor-in-chief. Merryn also has a weekly column in the Financial Times and a monthly column in Saga. She is a regular TV/radio commentator and speaker on financial matters and contributes to publications from the Spectator and Prospect to Woman & Home and Libertine (a magazine for the thoughtful woman).
She is a trustee of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (which kindly financed her initial Japanese language education and sponsored her at NHK) and is a director of two investment trusts – the Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon Trust and the Montanaro European Smaller Companies Trust.
3. Kieran Daly, Scotland Manager, Big Issue Invest
Kieran Daly is a social investor and a social innovation specialist. He currently manages Big Issue Invest Scotland’s portfolio, with a particular focus on early stage social ventures. He is also a board director of social enterprises MsMissMrs, the TIE Campaign and the Remade Network.
Prior to this, he was COO at London-based social enterprise FoodCycle, where he developed a social franchise of the volunteer driven community café model which used food that would otherwise be wasted; this expanded the social enterprise by 100% in under two years.
He has worked in the social sector for over 15 years at senior management levels, for a range of arts, youth and environmental social enterprises based in London and Scotland.
