Jed Emerson

Thanks for checking out our books and info! While I began my career as a social worker and was founding director of Larkin Street Services in San Francisco, my career has taken me through impact investing, venture philanthropy, sustainable private equity investing, hedge fund investing and more! Since 2010, I have served as Senior Advisor to a small group of family offices with a combined net worth of over $1.2bb and am also Senior Fellow with the nonprofit financial services group, ImpactAssets. I was a founding board member of Pacific Community Ventures, founding director of REDF and have been affiliated with various leading investment firms, such as Generation Investment Management (London). I'm also something of an accidental academic, having taught the first course on Social Entrepreneurship at Kellogg Business School, had faculty appointments at the business schools of Stanford, Harvard and Oxford Universities, as well as having served as clinical professor with NYU-Abu Dhabi. For the past decade, I've also served as a nonresident research fellow at Heidelberg University's Center for Social Investing. I also serve as Senior Fellow with the nonprofit financial services group, ImpactAssets, and am also a Senior Fellow with the impact investor network, Toniic. Much as the term is over-used, I'm viewed as an international thought leader, having originated the concept of Blended Value and produced numerous articles on investing capital and managing firms for multiple returns. I have presented my work at the World Economic Forum, CGI and other events around the world. My various papers, research and interviews may be found at www.blendedvalue.org and are available for free...