Speakers

Paul Marshall is CIO and Co-founder of Marshall Wace LLP, a global hedge fund headquartered in London. Marshall Wace manages $27bn in a combination of fundamental long/short alpha capture and credit strategies. He is a founding Trustee of Ark, the children’s charity, and Chairman of Ark Schools. In April 2015, he co-founded The Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship at LSE with Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett. Paul served as Lead-Non-Executive Director at the Department for Education from 2013 to 2016. He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in June 2016 for services to education and philanthropy. Paul holds an MBA from INSEAD Business School and a BA (Hons) from St John’s College, Oxford University. He is author of The Tail: How England's Schools Fail One Child in Five - and What Can be Done  (2013), Tackling Educational Inequality (2007) and co-editor of the Orange Book (2004). 

Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett is Co-founder and Chair of The Marshall Institute and Chair of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He is also a Trustee of The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and The King's Fund, and is on the Board of the Westminster Abbey Foundation. Thomas has served the Department of Health as a Chair or member of a number of advisory boards. He has held senior leadership positions with Fleming Securities, Enskilda, Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children, English Churches Housing Group, Marie Curie Cancer Care, and the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London, amongst others. Thomas has provided consult to a number of entities including End of Life Care internationally, The Sowerby Commission, English National Opera, the Arts Council and the Cabinet Office. In 2012 he was awarded a knighthood for his services to philanthropy, in 2013 a Beacon Fellowship for Philanthropic Advocacy, a US Ferrari lifetime lectureship by Houston Methodist Medical School and an Honorary Degree by Anglia Ruskin University.  

Stephan Chambers took up the post of inaugural Director of the Marshall Institute in May 2016. Prior to joining the Marshall Institute Stephan was the Co-founder of the Skoll World Forum and Chair of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and Director of International Strategy at Oxford’s Saїd Business School, and Senior Research Fellow at Lincoln College Oxford. He sits on the Advisory Board of Princeton University Press and is a Director of the Britdoc Foundation, the Dartington Trust, the University of the People, and the Dragon School. He wrote a regular Entrepreneurship column for the Financial Times and was special advisor to Larry Brilliant and Jeff Skoll at the Skoll Global Threats Fund in California in 2014. Stephan teaches entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial finance and directed Oxford University's MBA from 2000 to 2014. He was founding Director of Oxford’s Executive MBA and helped to found Oxford’s Man Institute for Quantitative Finance.

Professor Nava Ashraf joined the Marshall Institute as its inaugural Research Director in July 2016. As Research Director she leads the Marshall Institute’s effort to imbue private action for the public good with the science that illuminates how to maximise its impact. Nava is a Professor at LSE's Department of Economics, joining LSE from Harvard University where she was an Assistant and later Associate Professor from 2005 to 2016. She is Lead Academic for Zambia at the International Growth Centre (IGC), a Fellow at BREAD and NBER as well as Affiliated Professor at MIT Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Nava's research combines psychology and economics, using both lab and field experiments to test insights from behavioural economics in the context of global development in Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia. She has pioneered the concept of altruistic capital, a way of harnessing every individual's intrinsic desire to make a positive social impact. Her recent field experiments on health services delivery and educational investment have been carried out jointly with the Ministries of Health and Education in Zambia, using a model of co-generation of knowledge. 

Sir Stuart Etherington was appointed Chief Executive of NCVO in 1994. NCVO is a membership organisation that represents the interests of charities and voluntary bodies. Previously he was Chief Executive of the Royal National Institute for Deaf People, a major UK charity. Throughout his career he has been involved in the leadership of voluntary organisations and policies surrounding them. As such he has become a leading commentator, both through his writing and his media profile. 
Stuart is a member of the Economic and Social Committee of the European Union and the Chair of London United. He is Chair of the Trustees of the Patron’s Fund and chaired a cross party review looking at the structure of the regulation of fundraising. He has been a Trustee of Business in the Community, the Chair of the BBC Appeals Advisory Committee, a member of the Community and Social Affairs Committee of Barclays Bank, former Chair of Guidestar UK, Chair of CIVICUS Europe, Treasurer of CIVICUS, a Council Member of the Institute of Employment Studies, an Advisory Group member for the Policy Centre at the British Academy and for the Lord Mayor’s Trust Initiative. Stuart was knighted in 2010 for services to the voluntary sector.

Before joining Esmée, Caroline Mason was Chief Operating Officer at Big Society Capital and preceding that, Charity Bank. Caroline was also the Co-founder of Investing for Good, a social investment advisory firm and one of the first Community Interest Companies. Before joining the social sector, Caroline had an eighteen-year track record of creative and innovative product development in the financial services sector. With Reuters, she managed the global development of real-time news and television services and then pioneered the introduction of web technology products. She also had her own consulting company, working with several financial institutions to develop new business and products including an electronic brokering service and a global wealth management business for a private bank. Caroline is a Board Member of EVPA (European Venture Philanthropy Association). She is also a trustee of SafeLives, Impetus-PEF, and is on the Advisory Board of Big Society Capital.

Nick O’Donohoe was the Chief Executive Officer of Big Society Capital (BSC) from 2011 to December 2015. He was appointed by the UK government to establish and launch this independent financial institution which is capitalised by dormant bank accounts and the large UK Banks and whose objective is to develop the social impact investment market in the UK. Since stepping down from his role at BSC Nick has acted as a Senior Advisor to the Gates Foundation and also as Chairman of the UK Dormant Assets Commission. Previously Nick was at J.P. Morgan, latterly as Global Head of Research. He was a member of the Management Committee of the Investment Bank and the Executive Committee of J.P. Morgan Chase, as well as the senior sponsor for J.P. Morgan’s Social Finance Unit. Nick co-authored Impact Investments: An Emerging Asset Class, published by J.P. Morgan and the Rockefeller Foundation in November 2010. Before J.P. Morgan Nick worked at Goldman Sachs. Nick is a Board Member of the Global Impact Investing Network. He is also Vice Chairman of the Global Steering Group on Impact Investing and a member of the Investment Committee of the Women’s World Banking Microfinance Fund. He has an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA in Mathematical Economics and Statistics from Trinity College, Dublin.

William MacAskill is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Oxford University and Tutorial Fellow at Lincoln College. His research has two main focuses. The first addresses the issue of how one ought to make decisions under normative uncertainty; the second is on effective altruism: the use of evidence and reason to promote the wellbeing of all. His book on the topic, Doing Good Better, was published in 2015, and reviewed favorably in The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian and The New York Times. In the future, he plans to work further on the theory and practice of effective altruism, including aggregating wellbeing, time-discounting, moral methodology, career choice and cause prioritisation. William is the Co-founder of three non-profits based on effective altruist principles: Giving What We Can (2009), 80,000 Hours (2011) and the Centre for Effective Altruism (2012). These organisations have collectively raised over $15 million for effective charities with a further $700 million in lifetime pledged donations, and sparked the ’effective altruism movement’, with thousands of members and over a hundred local groups around the the world.

From 2005 to 2015, Jasmine was CEO of Save the Children: first turning around the performance of Save the Children UK and then bringing together all 30 members of the global federation to create Save the Children International. This merger aligned 25,000 staff working in 120 countries behind a single mission and strategy, achieving planned synergies and growing the global budget to over 2 billion USD. Jasmine’s experience in the non-profit sector began in 1999 when she worked in West Africa with Oxfam. Jasmine started her career in international marketing in the business-to-business technology sector, holding management positions including with Rio Tinto and a US-based, venture-funded start-up before moving to Thomson Financial where she was a Managing Director of a US business unit. Jasmine was awarded a BA in English, an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Bristol and completed the Executive Programme at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.