The Impact Revolution - Fixing the Future

The LSE’s Marshall Institute is leading a global programme on the impact economy - the use of enterprise and investment for public good. Our work focuses on identifying emerging patterns, convening key actors and building tools for action. This event is the inaugural lecture in the Impact Economy Project’s dialogue series.

In the face of mounting economic and social pressures across the world, Sir Ronnie Cohen, pioneer of the Impact Revolution, argues in the updated edition of IMPACT that our global economic system is not working to resolve our challenges, and the solution to today’s problems - from widening social disparities to the climate crisis - lies in a new impact economic paradigm that aligns risk, return and impact.

Chaired by Kieron Boyle, Professor in Practice for the Impact Economy the discussion will explore how decisions taken by investors, businesses, consumers and governments can take social and environmental outcomes into account. The ongoing shift to an impact paradigm offers a powerful way of improving millions of lives as well as the planet.

Drawing on his extensive experience as one of Britain’s pioneering venture capitalists, his leadership of the UK Government’s Social Investment Task Force (2000-10) and its G8 counterpart (2013-14), and as founder of GSG Impact, Bridges Fund Management, Social Finance, Better Society Capital, the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts, and the Portland Trust, Sir Ronnie will argue that we are at a tipping point in bringing social and environmental outcomes to the centre of our economic system.

Please join us for a timely and compelling conversation followed by drinks reception and book signing.

Copies of the book will be on sale with a discount available for those presenting a student card.