Sustaining Impact Investment – an Expert Fireside Chat with Professor Rosemary Addis, Karim Harji and moderated by Associate Professor Ben Neville. This event was held Monday 5 December 2022.
Leaders everywhere are confronting major, rapid global change and the imperative to sustainability with value creation. Our expert panel including the University’s Enterprise Professor Rosemary Addis AM and Karim Harji from Oxford’s Said Business School, talked about opportunities to cut through the noise on ESG and sustainability, understand key trends and navigate the landscape of risks and opportunities connected with social and environmental challenges. Moderated by Associate Professor Ben Neville the panel shared their knowledge and insights and lessons working with executives from prominent private, public, and social sector organisations from around the globe.
The panel
Professor Rosemary Addis AM
Enterprise Professor in Impact, Sustainability, and Innovation
Faculty of Business and Economics – University of Melbourne
Professor Rosemary Addis is Founding Managing Partner of Mondiale Impact, and chairs the Sweef Capital Board of Advisors and Climate Ready Australia 2030. She has advised SDG Impact at the United Nations Development Programme, the OECD Social Impact Investing Initiative, the World Economic Forum Ideas to Practice, and the World Banking Group. She is Social Innovation Strategist for the Australian Government, G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce and Founding Chair Impact Investing Australia (Market Builder of the Year 2018 & 2020). She is Enterprise Professor of Impact, Sustainability and Innovation at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne and has also collaborated with Oxford University and Harvard Kennedy School.
Karim Harji
Programme Director of the Oxford Impact Measurement Programme at the Said Business School, University of Oxford.
Karim Harji works with investors and ventures to describe, measure, and improve their social impact. He is the Programme Director of the Oxford Impact Measurement Programme at the Said Business School, University of Oxford; General Partner at Possibilian Ventures, which backs companies that increase well-being, prosperity, and sustainability; and Managing Director at Evalysis, an impact measurement and management consultancy.
Karim was previously a co-founder and Director at Purpose Capital (now, Rally Assets), where he established and led its Impact Investment Advisory practice. He was the Co-Chair of the Impact Measurement Task Force convened by the Government of Ontario, Member of the Impact Measurement Working Group of the G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force, and an Advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation on social impact measurement.
Associate Professor Ben Neville (Moderator)
Faculty of Business and Economics – University of Melbourne
Ben Neville is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management & Marketing, Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Ben researches and teaches in the area of sustainable business, including corporate social responsibility, business ethics, ethical consumption and social entrepreneurship. His work investigates how business can be a force for both harm and good, including from strategic, ethical, political and critical perspectives.
Ben is a Deputy Director of Melbourne Climate Futures, the University’s interdisciplinary initiative to accelerate the pathway to a positive climate future. Ben is also the Gourlay Fellow of Ethics in Business, the Sustainability in the Curriculum Fellow for the Faculty of Business and Economics, Coordinator of the Governance, Policy and Markets Stream in the Master of Environment, and Program Director of the new Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Business.