
Reviews Write New Review
Location
Booking Fee
Fee: $##,###Get Pricing
Virtual Fee: $##,###Get Pricing
[email protected]
Georgia Levenson Keohane
CEO of the Soros Economic Development Fund & Author of, "Capital and the Common Good" and "Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century"
Georgia Levenson Keohane is the CEO of the Soros Economic Development Fund, the impact investing arm of the Open Society Foundations. She has more than twenty years of leadership experience in the private and nonprofit sectors at the intersection of the capital markets, responsible business and investing, innovative philanthropy, and public policy.
Previously, she served as President of the Navab Capital Partners (NCP) Foundation and head of the firm's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practice, and before that Executive Director of the Pershing Square Foundation. A former McKinsey consultant, Keohane has advised CEOs, boards, management teams, and institutional, corporate, and philanthropic investors on strategy, operations, ESG, sustainable and impact investing, and inclusive growth. She is also a professor of social enterprise at Columbia Business School, where she hosts the Capital for Good podcast.
Keohane speaks and writes regularly on social and economic policy, philanthropy, stakeholder capitalism, and the role of business in society, and is the author of two award winning books, Capital and the Common Good: How Innovative Finance is Tackling the World's Most Urgent Problems (2016) and Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation Across the Nonprofit, Private and Public Sectors (2013). Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Time, and the Harvard Business Review, among other publications.
Keohane serves on several corporate and nonprofit boards, and holds a BA from Yale University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an MSC from London School of Economics, where she was a Fulbright Scholar.
Speech Topics
Impact Investing
What it is and Why it Matters
Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century
Innovation Across the Nonprofit, Private and Public Sectors
Capital and the Common Good
How Innovative Finance is Tackling the World's Most Urgent Problems
Sustainability 101
Demystifying ESG, Impact investing and Responsible Business Practices
Stakeholder Capitalism and the Future of Responsible Business
Purpose, Profits, and the Value of Values Based Leadership
Related Speakers View all
![]() |
Oprah Winfrey
CEO of Oprah Winfrey Network, Presidential Medal of ...
|
![]() |
Jean Case
CEO of the Case Foundation & Author of "Fearless: Fi...
|
![]() |
Sophia Amoruso
International Public Speaker, Founder & CEO of Nasty...
|
![]() |
Jacqueline Novogratz
Founder & CEO of Acumen Fund
|
![]() |
Barbara Corcoran
Real Estate Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Author & C...
|
![]() |
Alana Andrews
Author of "Creating Confidence", CEO & Founder of Th...
|
![]() |
Mohammad Anwar
President, CEO of Culture+ & Softway; WSJ Best Selli...
|
![]() |
Arlan Hamilton
Founder of Backstage Capital, Venture Capitalist, Te...
|
![]() |
Liene Stevens
Author, speaker, and behavioral psychology expert wh...
|
![]() |
Guy Spier
Owner & CEO of Aquamarine Capital
|
![]() |
Erica Dhawan
Leading Authority on Corporate Cultures Based on Tru...
|
![]() |
Ed Gavagan
Owner of PraxisNYC
|
![]() |
Jennifer Hyman
Award-Winning Co-Founder & CEO of Rent the Runway, G...
|
|
Sahar Hashemi
Entrepreneur & Founder of Coffee Republic and Skinny...
|
![]() |
Indra Nooyi
Former Chairman & CEO of PepsiCo
|
![]() |
Lady Michelle Mone
Entrepreneur, Mentor, Global Motivational Speaker & ...
|
|
Maynard Webb
Silicon Valley Company Builder, Founder of Webb Inve...
|
![]() |
Dyana Valentine
Oracle & Entrepreneur; Founder of WHY and creator of...
|
![]() |
Melinda French Gates
Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
|
![]() |
Daymond John
"Shark Tank" Investor; Founder & CEO of FUBU; Presid...
|