Kelle Bevine – Chief of Strategy, Structured and Corporate Finance Department, Inter-American Development Bank

Kelle Bevine is the Chief of Strategy within the IDB’s Structured and Corporate Finance Department (SCF), a post she has held since 2011. As Chief of the SCF Strategy Unit, Ms. Bevine manages investment staff responsible for originating and executing private sector transactions in the social infrastructure sectors of health and education as well as a team dedicated to facilitating greater social and climate impact in all SCF operations, working closely with origination teams to identify and design sustainability opportunities aligned to strategy. Her responsibilities also include leading the department’s strategic communication, strategy implementation, training program and budget. She assumed the post of Chief of Strategy after serving three years as Chief Advisor to the SCF Manager. Prior to joining SCF Management, Ms. Bevine held positions in operations as Lead Investment Officer and specialized in securitized transactions while responsible for IDB capital market deals in Mexico.
Previously, Ms. Bevine served for three years as the Counselor to the U.S. Executive Director to the IDB, after five years as an international economist with the U.S. Treasury Department and The White House. She began her career trading derivatives at Dean Witter in New York, and is licensed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to trade stocks, bonds, futures and options. Ms. Bevine, a U.S. national, received a Master’s degree in international economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Jed Emerson – Chief Impact Strategist, ImpactAssets

Jed Emerson works with a limited group of three families, each of whom is pursuing Total Portfolio Management approaches to impact investing wherein market-rate, near market and philanthropic capital is all managed on a sustainable/responsible and impact basis. He is Senior Strategist with Impact Assets, a nonprofit financial services firm offering an impact donor advised fund and educational resources to wealth advisors and their clients. Jed chairs the "IA-50" an annual landscape overview of impact funds offering an orientation to those new to impact investing regarding the themes and strategies of impact investment funds. He has written extensively on impact investing (co-authoring the first book on the topic), is the originator of the concept of Blended Value and has presented at the World Economic Forum, the Clinton Global Initiative and countless other events around the world.

Karen Hitschke – Director, Funds and Investments, Yunus Social Business

Karen has extensive expertise and experience in fund structuring, investment processes and fundraising. Prior to YSB, she was the Chief Financial Officer at Affectis AG and an advisor to B-to-V (Business Angel Network) in Switzerland. Before that, Karen was an Investment Manager at Apax Partners and a consultant at McKinsey & Co. She holds an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, and a M.Sc. in Biology from the University of Constance.

John E. Morton – Chief of Staff, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)

John E. Morton brings more than fifteen years of experience in emerging markets, and environmental and economic policy. Prior to joining OPIC, John Morton was Managing Director of the Pew Economic Policy Group at The Pew Charitable Trusts. The Economic Policy Group focused on developing and promoting solutions to issues such as the growing U.S. deficit, the changing regulatory system in financial markets, and trends in economic mobility in the American middle class.

Prior to joining Pew, Mr. Morton served as director of National Security Policy for the John Kerry presidential campaign, where he coordinated the development of policy concerning Afghanistan, Russia and the former Soviet states, Africa, and on issues relating to democracy, human rights and economic development.

Previously, Mr. Morton was an investment officer with Global Environment Fund, where he oversaw global investments in sustainable forestry and the natural gas sector and developed the firm’s clean-energy practice. Mr. Morton also worked as a strategy consultant with Mercer Management Consulting. He began his professional career at the World Bank, where he managed investments in the former Soviet Union.

. Morton received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. He graduated from Harvard College with a B.A. in Russian History and Literature.

Mr. Morton has served on the boards of directors and executive committee of the National Security Network, and the Clean Energy Network. He is a fellow of the Aspen Institute’s Catto environmental leaders program and the U.S.–Japan Leadership Program.

Luther Ragin – CEO, Global Impact Investment Network

Luther M. Ragin, Jr. is the Chief Executive Officer of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing. The GIIN builds critical infrastructure and supports activities, education, and research that help accelerate the development of more robust impact investing industry.

Prior to joining the GIIN, Luther served as Vice President for Investments at New York-based F.B. Heron Foundation from 1999 to 2011. Mr. Ragin oversaw the F.B. Heron Foundation's endowment, building a portfolio of more than $260 million, steadily increasing the impact investing allocation to more than 40 percent while maintaining competitive, risk-adjusted financial returns. Prior to joining the Foundation in 1999, Luther was the Chief Financial Officer of the National Community Capital Association, a trade association of community development financial institutions that provide access to capital in low-income communities. Other significant experience includes eight years as Chief Financial Officer of Earl G. Graves, Ltd., and seven years with Chase Manhattan Bank, including three years as Vice President of Syndications/ Assets Sales for the North American Corporate Finance Sector. He holds a BA and Master of Public Policy from Harvard, and is a graduate of Columbia University's Executive Program in Business Administration. He is a member of the board of directors of Social Finance U.S., the GIIN, and the Threshold Group. He is an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a senior research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.