Before working with the Institute and its predecessor Impact Investing Taskforce, Jamie was head of UBS Wealth Management in the UK. Jamie joined UBS after nineteen years at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, latterly as Chief Executive of its European operations.

Sarah Forster is CEO and Co-Founder of The Good Economy. She has worked at the forefront of finance for positive impact for more than 25 years, working in the fields of sustainable economic development, development finance and impact measurement and management.

Sarah co-founded The Good Economy in 2015 to enhance the role of business and finance in inclusive and sustainable development. She acts as a trusted advisor to clients across the private, public and social sectors.

Other recent work includes directing the development of the Sustainability Reporting Standard for Social Housing and co-authoring an influential roadmap for the Urban Land Institute to help global real estate capture and enhance its social value.

Sarah Teacher is Executive Director of the Impact Investing Institute, a non-profit organisation that seeks to accelerate the growth and improve the effectiveness of the impact investing market in the UK and internationally. Sarah came to the Institute from Lendlease Europe where she served as Social Impact Investment Manager within its European Investment Management business. Sarah was responsible for developing the impact investing strategy at Lendlease and supporting the development of impact investing propositions.

Prior to her work at Lendlease Sarah worked in roles at the intersection of social impact, sustainability and private capital – be that corporate investment or philanthropic. She was a Consultant at Sancroft International (2013-2017), an international sustainability consultancy focused on the social, environmental and ethical risks faced by major businesses; an Associate at On Purpose, a one-year programme for early-career professionals identified as future leaders in social enterprise (2012-13); and Director for Next Generation Philanthropy at the Institute for Philanthropy (2006-2010), leading workshops for philanthropists interested in increasing the impact of their giving.

Sarah graduated from Lady Margaret Hall College, Oxford, in 2005 with a first-class degree in Modern History, and obtained an MPhil in Development Studies from Clare College, Cambridge in 2011. She serves as a Director of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and its European Chair.

Mark Hepworth is The Good Economy’s research and policy director, leading its work on inclusive and sustainable development. Mark is a multidisciplinary economist whose international career spans academia, public policy and business consultancy.

His focus at The Good Economy is on business-led inclusive growth, Place-Based Impact Investing and the UN Sustainable Development Goals as future drivers of business model innovation and transformative policy.

Mark has deep knowledge of the UK economic development landscape through his research at the Universities of Newcastle and London and policy consultancy at the Local Futures Group, which he co-founded in 1997 (now part of Grant Thornton).

Paul Stanworth is currently CIO of 777 Asset Management and a former CEO of Legal & General Capital, which he set up to pioneer the drive for socially useful investments by large institutions.

Prior to this, he was Managing Director with Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank providing derivative and structured solutions for insurers and also previously held executive positions at Royal Bank of Scotland and Prudential (UK). He has held positions across asset management, finance and insurance.

As a principal associate at The Good Economy, Paul has co-led the PBII research programme alongside Sarah Forster and Mark Hepworth.

Karen Shackleton has worked in the finance sector for over 30 years. She provides independent investment advice to pension funds, is the non-executive Chair of impact manager Resonance and founder of Pensions for Purpose, an information-sharing platform on impact investment.