Alice G. Chapple

Alice Chapple is a U.K. citizen and resident who is an economist and a specialist in impact investment and impact assessment. She established Impact Value, a specialist consultancy firm that helps impact investors identify how they can best use their capital to create positive social or environmental change, in 2012. She has spent her career working to find ways in which companies and investors can have a meaningful impact beyond financial returns.

Before establishing Impact Value, Ms. Chapple worked as Director of Sustainable Financial Markets at Forum for the Future, where she worked on projects exploring the scope for innovative financial instruments, more effective valuation techniques, better risk assessment, and longer-term investment strategies. Prior to that role, she worked for many years at a UK development finance institution, CDC Group Plc, as a financial analyst, fund manager, and social and environmental advisor. In the late 1990s, she established a program for the evaluation of development impact, and in the 2000s she designed processes for fund managers to assess the ESG aspects of their investments.

Ms. Chapple's current roles include Chair of Investor Watch Group which seeks to align capital markets with a sustainable future through Carbon Tracker and Planet Tracker, two financial think tanks, Independent Director of the Schroders BSC Social Impact Trust PLC, Trustee of the Shell Foundation and member of the Advisory Boards of Frontier Finance Solutions, WHEB Asset Management, and Connected Asset Management. She has also developed a sustainable finance course for the University of Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership.

Ms. Chapple has an MA in Economics from Cambridge University and is a chartered accountant.