Reception with Amit Bouri (CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network, Kellogg '07)

Join us for a reception after Amit's keynote speech as part of Kellogg's Social Enterprise Beacon Capital Partners Executive in Residence! Come meet Amit and other socially-minded students in the Kellogg community over food and drinks!

We will have food catered by Curt's Cafe (http://curtscafe.org/our-program/). Curt's Café is a non-profit organization that provides training, in food service and life skills, for at-risk youth in Evanston. Students at Curt's learn valuable, employable skills; they're tutored in subjects ranging from computer literacy to job readiness to food history; and they are mentored by food service professionals and other caring adults

Key note speech from 5:15 to 6:30 in G40. Reception to follow in the Atrium Annex.

The Beacon Capital Partners Executive in Residence program is a unique opportunity for the Kellogg School to invite a world class leader in social enterprise to spend a few days talking with the entire Kellogg community about important issues in nonprofit management.

At its core, impact investing is the confluence of idealism and pragmatism; it relies on one having a vision for a better world and the rigor and determination to use investment to drive that change. So how does the market need to grow? What challenges still exist for impact investors? What opportunities remain untapped? The GIIN and its members are ready to tackle these types of critical questions to ensure that impact investing reaches its true potential. Amit will share his experience in leading the GIIN, as well as his vision for the future of impact investing—a vision that involves changing how people think about the purpose of capital and the opportunity to invest in a better world.

Amit Bouri (Kellogg '07) is the co-founder and CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing. When Amit Bouri left his consulting job at Monitor in 2009 to start the Global Impact Investing Network, the global financial crisis was testing the very foundation of the global economy—it was also challenging the many assumptions investors made about how markets operate. Amidst this change, a group of pioneering investors saw an opportunity to build a real market for impact investments and channel vast amounts of capital towards addressing social and environmental challenges. Seven years later, the idea of impact investing has captured the imaginations of leaders and investors around the world. There are at least 350 impact investing vehicles operating worldwide, and the GIIN's own membership has grown from 25 organizations to more than 220. And impact investing has only just begun to scratch the surface.

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