Interview Snippet: Amit Bouri, the head of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) discusses their work and impact on global economic development.
In the realm of Forestry, Funds, Infrastructure, and Real Assets, a significant transformation is underway. The global impact investing industry, now valued at $1.571 trillion (€1.32 trillion), managed by 3,907 organizations, is playing a crucial role in addressing pressing global challenges.
At the forefront of this movement is the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), co-founded by Amit Bouri in 2009. The GIIN is a global community of impact investors that aims to build critical impact infrastructure and support education, activities, and research across the industry.
One of the GIIN's key focuses is on reaching historically difficult markets, requiring flexible capital. This is particularly important in sectors like Forestry and Development Finance, where the need for sustainable solutions is immense.
In Europe, institutions like the Bundesinitiative Impact Investing (BIII), Invesdor, Oikocredit, and the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group are playing significant roles in connecting and engaging institutional investors and catalytic capital for impact investing.
Meanwhile, in the realm of Family wealth, Funds, Investment, and Philanthropy, wealthy investors are encouraged to use networking to build impact. Amit Bouri, the CEO and co-founder of the GIIN, expects a deeper transformation in the industry over the next five years, with investors orienting around building a future world.
Impact investing can address specific problems such as the need for more affordable housing, the transition to a sustainable food system, increased access to healthcare and education, and addressing climate change. The convergence of great need in the world and the opportunity for impact investing to demonstrate that it can deliver on an increasingly global scale is a significant development.
As large institutional investors and family offices increasingly lean into impact investing in significant ways, tools like IRIS are being used by many large institutional investors as the basis on which they build their impact measurement and management systems.
The GIIN engages with investors, particularly institutional investors, to unlock catalytic capital by providing tools, transparency, and training initiatives. This is evident in recent developments such as New Forests' acquisition of a South African forestry company, a move that demonstrates the potential of impact investing in the Forestry sector.
In five years, Amit Bouri hopes that all investors will be oriented around impact investing, trying to use it as a key tool in putting capital to work. This broader restructuring of the role that the private sector plays in shaping society and the planet is expected to be a defining feature of the next decade.
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