About FFI.
Bringing together leading investors, family offices and business leaders to advance the global dialogue in impact finance.
Forum for Impact fosters global collaboration among leaders dedicated to impact and sustainable investment. For the past five years, FFI has convened private dialogues for family offices, investors, and global leaders, offering a space to share journeys and inspire others towards creating positive world impact. Unlike traditional conferences, our invitation-only gatherings are intentionally curated to facilitate intimate, experiential conversations among leaders in impact, sustainability, and finance, and create measurable impacts and outcomes.
Global Gatherings
Our global dialogues contribute to the growing impact agenda among investors around the world. Taking place in the Bahamas, Singapore and Zurich our FFI dialogues develop a conversation among our participants.
Regional Dialogues
FFI also convenes smaller, more intimate dialogues that focus on regional impacts and opportunities. These dialogues specialize in specific impact areas and contribute to the agenda of the global dialogues.
Impact Lenses
FFI is about more than just talk. Each year we create tangible, measurable impact from our dialogue series by prioritizing and facilitating outcomes from each dialogue to produce real change in the world.
FFI is a partnership between Michael Meehan and Simon Jacot de Boinod, leveraging the expertise and networks of both individuals regarding impact and investment.
Michael Meehan
With over 20 years’ experience in impact and sustainable finance, Michael is an investor, thought leader, and senior advisor to public and private sector organizations around the world and serves on various boards for funds in the EU, UK, US, Canada and Asia. He is co-founder of the Forum for Impact and is the former Chairman of the UK Sustainable Investment & Finance Association, a consortium of leading institutional investors with AUM of over £11 trillion. Michael is also the former CEO of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the largest sustainability standard in the world. As a pioneer in climate finance, he has also served on the board of trustees of Global Canopy, former CEO of Carbonetworks, vice-chair of the Natural Capital Coalition, and is the current CEO of Canoe Carbon, an asset manager in climate finance based in Canada. Michael is also an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, Canada where he serves as the faculty lead for Sustainable Finance. Throughout his career, Michael has worked with the White House, the UN, the World Economic Forum, and many other organizations in his mission to improve the state of the world through impact.
Simon Jacot de Boinod
Simon is the founder of Forum, a global network of principals and experts, all personally invited to join by members of its Advisory Board. There are membership chapters in London, New York, West Coast, Singapore, Zurich, Vienna and Tel Aviv, with additional members residing in 20 further cities worldwide. The membership is deliberately eclectic in its mix – a peer group [male & female] drawn from the senior échelons of the business community and family offices with journalists, economists, politicians, public speakers, academics, designers, writers and those working in the arts also included within the number.
Lara Leigh-Wood
Previously, she founded and scaled Beacon Gainer Group in London, launching the Miolo wealth tech platform to transform complex advisory models for global clients. Her earlier roles include senior leadership at Charities Aid Foundation, the National Autistic Society, and Chapel & York International, where she most recently established a US-based Donor Advised Fund platform. Lara also serves on the board of the International Women’s Forum UK, where she chairs the Programme Committee, and has held trustee roles at Bowel Cancer Research and the Calne Foundation Trust.
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