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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

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