Impact Investing: Frontier Stories

Wayne Silby is Founding Chair of the Calvert Funds, a $15 billion investment management company in Bethesda, Maryland. He is also a Cofounder of Calvert Foundation, Impact Assets, Syntao Consulting (Beijing), The Ice Organisation (London), Social Venture Network, and the Emerging Europe Fund for Sustainable Development (OPIC). He has been doing impact investing since the late 1980s, having created the first social venture fund, and in 1994, Investors Circle named him Social Venture Capital Pioneer of the Year. He lives in Washington, D.C and spends a great deal of time in China. Opinions expressed are the author's sole responsibility.