Jed Emerson, Management Board, Confluence Overview Effect, PBLLC

Jed Emerson has worked in the arena of purpose driven capital for over 30 years. He is co-author of the first book on impact investing, as well as seven other books on impact investing and social entrepreneurship. 

Jed is founder of Blended Value Group, a consulting and advisory firm working with investment firms, funds, family offices and foundations to advance more effective wealth management and impact investing strategy and practice. Among his various activities, Jed currently serves as:

• Senior Strategic Advisor, AlTi Tiedemann Global, a multi-family office supporting families with complex wealth.
• Senior Fellow, Impact Assets, a $3bb nonprofit financial services firm executing impact investing through donor advised funds.
• Board Advisor, Happiness Capital/Hong Kong, a privately held impact investing fund.
• Board Member, Katapult Foundation/Oslo, a leading impact investing foundation and field building organization. 

Emerson is a Senior Fellow with the Blended Finance Initiative at the University of Zurich, a Senior Research Fellow at University of Heidelberg’s Center on Social Investing in Germany and has held faculty appointments at Harvard, Stanford and Oxford business schools. He has taught social entrepreneurship at Kellogg Business School, Harvard Business School, and NYU-Abu Dhabi.

In the late 90s, Emerson coined the concept of Blended Value to describe the reality that the value we create in our lives and through our investing is a blend of social, environmental and economic elements. While the value we create is whole, society asks us to choose between doing well or doing good, making money or engaging in philanthropy and working in nonprofit or for-profit organizations. This dualism prevents us from capturing the full value and multiple returns of not only our investments, but our companies, organizations, lives and personal purpose. Emerson’s last book, The Purpose of Capital: Elements of Impact, Financial Flows, and Natural Being, explores how we may bridge the divide between how we think about doing well and doing good in order to optimize the total, integrative impact of our lives and wealth, creating an inter-generational, living legacy that reflects our values and aligns our wealth with our ultimate life goals.

Emerson is founding director of REDF, a leading investor in U.S.-based social enterprises and Larkin Street Youth Services, a leading multi-service center for homeless youth.