Edward Jackson
Edward Jackson is a management consultant, university professor and editor specializing in evaluation and ecosystem-building on both the supply and demand sides of impact investing, blended finance, and gender lens investing in emerging markets. He is President of E. T. Jackson and Associates Ltd., an award-winning boutique management consulting firm that provides professional services to development agencies, investment funds, foundations and universities in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Dr. Jackson has advised the Australian, Canadian, Danish, and Swiss development cooperation programs, the Mastercard, McConnell, and Rockefeller foundations, Caribbean Development Bank, Deloitte, Développement international Desjardins, EMIIF, German Institute for Development Evaluation, IDRC, Investing in Women, United Nations Environment Programme, UN Women, World Bank, and WUSC. Jackson and Associates is a founding member of CAFIID, the Canadian Association of International Development Professionals, and the Responsible Investment Association of Canada.
An active, multidisciplinary scholar, and retired tenured university professor and former associate dean, Professor Jackson holds appointments as Senior Research Fellow at the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation at Carleton University, Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa, and Honorary Associate with the Institute of Development Studies in Brighton, UK. A member of the Impact and Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium of the Kellogg School of Management, he is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment, and co-edited JSFI’s 2022 special issue on growing gender lens investing in emerging markets. Originally trained in adult education and community development, Ted Jackson earned the Responsible Investment Professional Certification from the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment and the Responsible Investment Association. He is based in Ottawa.
Voting Member: Edward Jackson
Member since 2017