Social Impact Measurement and Management Online Course

Adam Richards PhD, is Director of Impact at Social Value International leading on international training, projects, and supporting people and organisations around the world to affect change. Before joining Social Value International, he was a Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University.

At RAISE Benoît is responsible for all matters related to Impact Measurement and Management. Before joining RAISE, he was a Sales Director at PlugwinePro, an online wine marketplace for professionals.

While working closely with 1500 winemakers across France, Benoît became utterly convinced that an environmental and social change hat to occur. He then decided to tackle ESG issues and launched www.green-shaker.com, a website dedicated to environment innovation.

Benoît graduted from Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II) with a Master's degree in Economics and a Master's degree in E-Commerce.

Karen is a Senior Advisor on sustainability, ESG and impact. Throughout her career, she has worked across the public and private sectors, including venture capital and investment banking as well as over 12 years leading work at the OECD on financing entrepreneurship and innovation, impact investment and impact measurement. She co-led the launch of the Impact Management Platform in 2021, which seeks to provide coherence on sustainability standards for companies and investors.

She is Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Impact Linked Finance Fund and a board member of the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA). She was a member of the G7 Impact Taskforce Working Group on Impact Reporting, Integrity and Transparency and served on the Global Impact Investment Steering Group (GSG) Board of Trustees Strategy Committee. She also serves on the Social Advisory Group of the Columbia Threadneedle UK Social Bond Fund and the Climate Advisory Group of the Multi-Asset Climate Solutions Fund of Aberdeen Standard Investments.

She is an Associate Fellow at Said Business School at Oxford University and a Senior Advisor and Sustainability/ESG Lead at the Institute of Strategy at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, where she also is a Visiting Lecturer. In 2022, she was selected by the Sorenson Impact Center as a Global Impact Leader.

Martina is the Impact & Operations Director for Social Innovation Fund Ireland with a unique expertise and skill set of driving change and innovations at a strategic level for organisations to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 across the for profit and not for profit sectors.

She is a pioneer of corporate sustainable development, ESG and impact investment in Europe with a distinct and long standing track record of working on both sides of the corporate and social sectors. Her comprehensive professional experience as well as her strong entrepreneurial track record has made Martina within the sustainable finance community a highly regarded expert and advocate of impact investments.

Sara is Impact Europe's Training Manager. She joined EVPA in 2017 to structure and to further develop the Training Academy activities, after more than ten years working as a project and impact manager, and as a trainer in the social impact field.

Before, Sara provided secretariat support to the Italian Advisory Board to the Social Impact Investment Taskforce established under the UK's Presidency of the G8. She is today the Secretary General of Social Impact Agenda per l'Italia, the Italian network for impact investing. She is a graduate in political philosophy and holds a master's degree in management of social enterprises from Bocconi Business School.