In Conversation with Ben Smith - Investing for Impact

You are invited to join us and the Centre for Social Impact for an indepth and intimate conversation with Ben Smith.

Ben is the CSI Flinders Impact Investor in Residence. He is Head of Impact Investing at Australia’s largest philanthropic foundation, the Paul Ramsay Foundation. Alongside his role at PRF, Ben is the inaugural Chair of the Foundations Group for Impact Investing and is Vice Chair of the UK’s NatWest Social and Community Capital.

Ben has over a decade of experience in impact investing and social enterprise. Starting his career in the private sector (management and strategy consultancy) and before joining the Foundation, Ben established UnLtd’s – the UK’s largest early-stage social enterprise supporter – social impact investment department and first funds. Most recently, Ben was Head of Social and Impact Investment at Esmée Fairbairn Foundation – the UK’s largest impact investing foundation. Other notable activities in the space include co-Chairing the UK’s Social Impact Investors Group and lecturing on Social Finance at Cranfield University and University of Westminster.