Presenter: Natasha Doherty
Organisation: Deloitte Access Economics

Impact Investing, a term coined a decade ago by the Rockefeller Foundation, focuses on generating social or environmental benefits, not just financial returns. It’s expected to grow to $500 billion by 2019, with the total capital available in private markets for social purposes as high as $210 trillion (Investopedia 2015).

Why is this approach to investing enjoying such popularity, and how does it work?

This webinar unpacks the who, what, where, when, how and why of impact investing, including social bonds and other related vehicles. Find out how it differs from philanthropy, why it’s not just not-for-profit organisations that are benefitting, and the evidence base that’s been developed to ensure informed social impact investment.

About the Presenter

Natasha is a Deloitte Access Economics Partner and leads the company’s national Program Evaluation and Performance Monitoring practice. She has worked across the public sector, predominately in health and social policy, accumulating 15 years’ experience in government-industry development.

Natasha is passionate about evidence-based policy and practice, and has led a number of evaluations for Commonwealth and state-based reforms including process, impact and outcome evaluation applying cost benefit analysis, social impact assessments, financial and social return on investment assessments across health, community services, funding reform and the innovation agenda.

She prides herself on achieving outcomes for clients that result in a better understanding of program effectiveness and more efficient use of resources for translation into evidence-based policy. She is in demand for speaking at conferences with her engaging and captivating style.

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