Who We Are

We are a team of forward-thinkers, who are driven by a shared passion to progress impact investing to the next level.

ImpactARC is powered with 90+ years of collective cross-sector experience in sustainable finance and investment.

Our team members have:

  • Established and expanded an award-winning fixed income firm.

  • Created the eligibility criteria for the first green bond (issued by the World Bank) and managed the first green bond fund.

  • Developed and refined the process for impact verification, impact reporting and engagement for sustainable investment strategies.

  • Led corporate responsibility teams, implementing sustainability reporting, operational efficiency improvements and carbon accounting.

  • Engaged in corporate and shareholder advocacy.

  • Coordinated projects to optimize corporate supply chain logistics to maximize efficiency and reduce waste.

  • Conducted training for diverse public and private clients on corporate sustainability, green and social finance.

Our Team

We are pioneers in the intersection of sustainability and finance applying holistic thinking to global challenges.

Judith Moore

  • 45 years’ experience

  • Head of Verification and Impact at Affirmative Investment Management

  • Head of World Bank Corporate Responsibility team

  • PhD in Regional Planning from MIT

  • MSc in Forest Science, from Yale School of Environment

    • Partnered with World Bank Treasury’s Capital Markets Department from 2007 until 2013 on the development of the Green Bond, including defining the criteria for eligible projects and selecting the underlying projects for the portfolio.

    • Established and led the World Bank’s Corporate Responsibility team for 6 years until 2011, tracking the environmental impacts of the World Bank’s day-to-day operations; reporting on sustainable operations based on international standards, such as GRI and CDP; and advised the UN on their Sustainable UN initiatives.

    • Lead author: Furthering World Bank Group's corporate environmental sustainability, 2010

    • Worked with the World Bank’s Europe and Central Asia and East Asia and Pacific regional units advising in national environmental action plans, environmental policy, and landscape ecology.

Ian Mallory

  • 40 years’ experience

  • Executive Chairman of VanadiumCorp Resource Inc.

  • Executive Vice President, Commercial, Sea NG Corporation

  • Executive Vice President, ENMAX

  • Director-General, Westcoast Energy Mexico

  • Vice President and Corporate Counsel, TransAlta

  • Counsel to the Treasury at the World Bank

  • M.Phil., University of Cambridge

  • LLB, University of Toronto

  • AB, Harvard University

  • Law Society of Ontario, Canada

Alya Kayal

  • 30 years’ experience

  • Board Director, CDP North America

  • Partner, Verification and Impact; and Client Engagement (US) at Affirmative Investment Management

  • Director of Policy and Programs at US SIF

  • VP, Sustainability Research at Calvert Investment

  • JD from University of Minnesota Law School

  • Member of the Bar of the District of Columbia, US

Stuart Kinnersley

  • 35 years’ experience

  • Co-Founder, Managing Partner, and CEO at Affirmative Investment Management

  • Chief Investment Officer and CEO at Nikko Asset Management Europe

  • Managing Director at LTCB Foreign (F&C)

  • Fixed Income Economist at ANZ Merchant Bank

  • BSc in Economics (First Class Honors) from London School of Economics

    • Created the world's first green bond fund in conjunction with World Bank in 2010.

    • A leading advocate for responsible investing in the Fixed Income impact bond space.

    • Article (ClimateAction): Stuart Kinnersley from AIM talks impact investing.

    • Speaker at major industry conferences on a variety of issues from Emerging Markets to Asset Allocation, and in the field of sustainable finance and green bonds.

    • Acted as senior advisor on a multi-billion dollar supranational pension fund.

Daisy Nicholls

  • 7 years’ experience

  • Analyst and Forecasting Manager at Tesco (Supply Chain)

  • Deputy Coordinator for Central London at The Felix Project - a charity that redistributes surplus food

  • Assistant at Veragon Water Solutions

  • Volunteer for International Citizen Service (Raleigh International), Nepal

  • MSc in Environmental Technology (Business and the Environment) from Imperial College London

  • Masters in Chemistry (MChem) from Magdalen College, University of Oxford

    • Development, financing, and execution of international energy projects.

    • Emphasis on clean energy, including wind, solar, hydro and battery storage.

    • Marine transportation of natural gas (LNG and CNG) to replace fuel oil in island economies.

    • Extensive on-the-ground experience in Latin America and the Caribbean.

    • Increasing focus on impactful small and medium sized projects, distributed generation, smart grids.

    • MSc thesis: How does current practice in the UK fast food sector compare with good practice?

    • Supply Chain lead for coordinating £15m of food donations to UK food banks during Covid-19.

    • Finalist for IGD Supply Chain Excellence Award: worked with suppliers to remove trucks from the road via double-stacking, thereby increasing efficiency and reducing costs and CO2 emissions.

    • Selected for Oceans19 project: proposal to replace plastic-wrapped multipacks with multi-buy deals implemented in Tesco stores, eliminating 67 million pieces of plastic each year.

    • Launched the Felix Green Scheme initiative.

    • MChem research on small heat shock proteins, published in Collier et al., Sci. Adv. (2019).

Our Partners and Networks

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