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Speaker Series with Matt Bannick

A conversation on impact investing across a continuum of financial returns

The Series features talks by distinguished scholars and policymakers with the goal of fostering discussions about successes and challenges in the field of poverty alleviation.

Event Details:

Wednesday, February 12, 2020
4:30pm - 6:00pm PST

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work, Entrepreneurship, and finance

On February 12, the Stanford King Center on Global Development held a Speaker Series with Matt Bannick, the former managing partner of Omidyar Network, as he discussed the state of the impact investing movement and investing for impact across a continuum of financial returns. He discussed perceived trade-offs between social return and financial impact, a framework for assessing impact, and when it may make sense to accept below-market returns in order to drive significant social impact. This discussion was moderated by Kenneth Singleton

 

About the speaker:

Matt Bannick

Matt Bannick is the former managing partner of Omidyar Network, a philanthropic venture capital firm. Matt led all aspects of Omidyar Network’s operations and strategy and helped to achieve its long-term mission: to create opportunity for individuals to improve their lives, and the lives of their family, their community and society, with the objective of social impact at scale. Under his leadership Omidyar Network invested more than $1.2 billion in early stage for profit and social ventures, impacting tens of millions of lives and helping to build the impact investing sector. From 1999 to 2007, Matt was a member of eBay Inc.’s executive staff and served in a number of senior executive roles, including as president of eBay International and president of Paypal.

Prior to joining eBay, Matt served for five years as the North American president of NavTeq, a provider of digital map databases for vehicle navigation systems and a forerunner of Google Maps. Prior to joining NavTeq, Matt was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and served as an American diplomat in Germany during the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall and German unification.

Matt serves on a number of boards and advisory boards, including Stanford Seed, and teaches a course on new business models in emerging markets at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Matt earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree, Phi Beta Kappa, in international studies and economics from the University of Washington.

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