During her experiences in the finance sector, Ms. Foppa matured the believe that Impact Investing approach is very well suited to drive, manage and scale sustainable positive impact while generating economic value. For many years, philanthropy and investing have been thought of as separate disciplines–one championing social change, the other financial return. In 2007 the Rockefeller Foundation convened with leaders in finance and philanthropy to explore and develop ways and means of building a worldwide industry for investing for social and environmental impact. In this think tank the concept of “impact investing” got coined and has grown into a well defined investment approach and network, a over USD 500bln market. Ms. Foppa is keen to share with us why impact investing matters, challenges and lessons learnt and is looking forward to discuss the opportunity to re-think how we deploy philanthropic money for inclusive and sustainable growth and ultimately to address our worlds most pressing societal challenges.
Ms. Foppa is a senior financial professional with +20 years of successful experience in different leadership roles in fundraising and business development in the financial industry all over Europe. She holds an Executive MBA from SDA Bocconi. In the last 4 years Heidi has been focusing on sustainable finance and impact investing by heading the Business Development and Investor Relations at Triodos Investment Management, one of the most experienced, thought leaders of values based banking and driving force for many international public and private initiatives launched in the last decade. Before Triodos she covered different responsibilities at Lombard Odier, a leading swiss global Wealth Manager. At the moment, Ms. Foppa is engaging in Kenya to support the business development and fundraising for community based initiatives in the area of conservation and improvement of the livelihood of the most underserved people. This initiative is supported by LGT Venture Philanthropy.
