Social Finance

• Contexts and Debates


• 1: Geoff Mulgan: Social Finance: Does 'Investment' Added Value?


• 2: Richard Steinberg: What Should Social Finance Invest In and With Whom?


• 3: Dennis R. Young: Financing Social Innovation


• 4: Matthew Bishop and Michael Green: Philanthrocapitalism Comes of Age


• The Landscape


• 5: Jonathan Michie: Co-operative and Mutual Finance


• 6: Nicholas Sabin: Microfinance: A Field in Flux


• 7: Rob John and Jed Emerson: Venture Philanthropy: Development, Evolution and Scaling Around the World


• 8: Anna Oleksiak, Alex Nicholls and Jed Emerson: Impact Investing: A Market In Evolution


• Models and Metrics


• 9: Alex Nicholls, Jeremy Nicholls and Rob Paton: Measuring Social Impact


• 10: Alex Nicholls and Emma Tomkinson: Risk and Return in Social Finance: 'I Am The Market'


• 11: Alex Nicholls and Aunnie Patton: Projection, Valuation, and Pricing in Social Finance


• 12: Alex Nicholls and Emma Tomkinson: The Peterborough Pilot Social Impact Bond


• Infrustructure


• 13: Rosemary Addis: The Roles of Government Policy in Social Finance


• 14: Roger Spear, Rob Paton, and Alex Nicholls: Public Policy for Social Finance in Context


• 15: Rodney Schwartz, Clare Jones, and Alex Nicholls: Building the Social Finance Infrastructure


• Furture Directions


• 16: Othmar M. Lehner: Crowdfunding in Social Finance


• 17: Peter Hinton and Sweta Penemetsa: Investing for Social Impact: Direct Foreign Investment and Private Equity in Africa and South Asia


• 18: Natalie Schoon: Islamic Finance As Social Finance


• 19: Jacob Harold, Joshua Spitzer, Jed Emerson, and Marieke Spence: Environmental Impact Investing: Co-Managing the Ecological and Economic Household

Dr Alex Nicholls MBA is Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford. His research interests range across social entrepreneurship and social innovation, including: the nexus of relationships between accounting, accountability, and governance; public and social policy contexts; social investment; and Fair Trade. He has published more than sixty papers, chapters and articles and four books. His co-authored book on Fair Trade (Sage, 2005) and edited collection of papers on social entrepreneurship (Oxford University Press, 2006, 2008) are the best-selling and most cited academic books on their subjects globally. He is the Editor of the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. Prior to his academic career, Nicholls held senior management positions at the John Lewis Partnership, the largest mutual retailer in Europe. He also a non-Executive Director for a major Fair Trade company.


Rob Paton is Professor of Social Enterprise at the UK Open University. As a teacher, he pioneered the use of new learning technologies for work-based learning in management, leadership and professional development. He was among the founding faculty of the OU Business School, and went on to lead major curriculum development exercises as well as research on new modes of learning. As a researcher, he has explored how value-based organizations can sustain both their social commitments and effective, enterprising forms of management and organization. He has served as chair of the Trustees of the Scott Bader Commonwealth, and secretary of ARNOVA. He is Chair of the board of Still Green CIC, and of the Milton Keynes chapter of Citizens UK.


Originator of the concept of Blended Value, Jed Emerson has played founder roles with some of the nation's leading impact investing, venture philanthropy, community venture capital and social enterprises. He is senior advisor to 4 family offices with over $1.4bb in total assets and executing 100% impact/sustainable investment strategies.