Jed Emerson

Jed joined Tiedemann as the Global Lead of Impact Investing after serving on the Firm’s Impact Advisory Council from 2018-2021. Jed oversees the strategy and implementation of Tiedemann’s impact investing practice and focuses on deepening the firm’s expertise and capabilities as well as helping identify effective impact solutions.

Jed has founded or co-founded some of the nation’s leading impact investing, venture philanthropy, community venture capital and social enterprises. He is Senior Fellow with ImpactAssets, a nonprofit financial services Firm. From 2011 to 2017, he was also senior strategic advisor to five family offices with over $1.4 billion in total assets, each executing 100 percent impact/sustainable investment strategies with their total net worth.

Jed has authored numerous articles and papers on social entrepreneurship and investing, including “Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference,” winner of the 2012 Nautilus Gold Book Award and the first book on impact investing. In 2018, he released his eighth book, titled “The Purpose of Capital.”

Originator of the concept of Blended Value, Jed has given presentations at The World Economic Forum, The Clinton Global Initiative, The Skoll World Forum and countless other conferences and professional meetings around the world. He is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Social Investment at Heidelberg University (Germany) and the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth at the University of Zurich, and has held faculty appointments with Oxford University, Harvard, Stanford and Kellogg business schools.