Karim Harji

Karim is the Programme Director of the Oxford Impact Measurement Programme at the Said Business School, University of Oxford, and a Founding Partner at Mondiale Impact. He is also the Managing Director at Evalysis, which works with boards and management teams to clarify their impact aspirations and strategies; align their measurement and management approaches; and navigate the complexity of data and decisions.

Karim has made influential contributions to advance knowledge and practice in social impact measurement and impact investing. He has published on industry trends and innovative practices; supported field-building initiatives to promote the value and integrity of impact measurement; and designed education and training programs across established and emerging markets.

More about Karim’s work: https://karimharji.com/

Jessica Menon

Jessica is a gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) specialist with 20 years of experience conducting GESI analyses, crafting gender action plans, managing organizational change management with a gender lens, and implementing systems-level policy and practice change to advance GESI globally. She has successfully managed large multidisciplinary teams globally and has operated her own small businesses and multi-million dollar government-funded programs. She has both strategic and practical experience working across development, humanitarian, finance, and private sectors in industries including energy, infrastructure, agriculture, health, and beyond with deep expertise in GBV. Her love of data analytics, tools, and systems-level change inspired the creation of Equilo.  

More about Jessica’s work: https://www.equilo.io/

Brian Milder

Brian has worked for the past two decades at the intersection of business and capital market approaches to generating economic opportunities for marginalized communities. He is the Founder & CEO of Aceli, a blended finance facility to catalyze increased lending to agricultural small- and medium-enterprises (SMEs) in Africa. Aceli offers financial incentives to a marketplace of commercial banks, non-bank financial institutions, and impact investors to address the elevated risks and transaction costs of lending to agri-SMEs. Previously, as Chief Innovation Officer for Root Capital, Brian led the impact and advisory teams and designed impact-linked finance mechanisms to expand lending to underserved agricultural SMEs in Africa and Latin America. He is also a co-founder, former Director, and currently Senior Advisor for the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF), an alliance of 20 impact lenders that promote industry standards and best practices for agricultural SME lending globally.

More about Brian’s work: https://aceliafrica.org/