Scientists—starting with Isaac Newton—have long acknowledged standing on the shoulders of giants. But the names of those giants have tended to fade quickly when they belonged to women and people of color. That is starting to change with a new generation of...
After welcoming the new year and settling back in my office in a fairly pleasant Argentine summer, I was starting to believe that the iconic salmon-pink-colored pages of the Financial Times could, at some point, turn green. The year 2020 was off to a great beginning...
Interest in blended finance is growing in popularity, so it seems. Having personally designed and invested in multiple transactions involving blended finance structures, I felt it was time to take a step back from my usual discussion topics to describe what blended...
The current economy we live in is linear: we take from the earth, we make products, and then we throw them away. This model is unsustainable for both people and planet. In contrast, the circular economy provides an alternative that is regenerative which benefits the...
Of all the countries I have made investments in, none has had more appeal than India. While my investment remit is global, over one-third of all the impact investments I have made in the last eight years have been in India. It is the impact investing hub of Asia. With...
AI has been around for a while now but its applications are still very much shrouded in hyperbole and myth. To be sure, important advances are taking place today, pioneered by people like Demis Hassabis, the lead at what is now Google’s ‘Deepmind’. However, much of...
