Carolina Biquard

Carolina Biquard is a lawyer that has dedicated her professional life to strengthening Civil Society in Argentina. She holds a Masters Degree in Nonprofit Management from the New School for Social Research (NYC, USA).

She founded Fundación Compromiso in 1994 and was CEO until 2005. Drawing upon the philosophy of management specialist Peter Drucker, Fundación Compromiso developed and spread a new model of training and support for argentine social organizations, and helped them articulate their work with the business and public sector.

From 2007-2009, Carolina Biquard was the National Director of Cultural Industries. She is now the President of Fondo Nacional de Las Artes, a public institution dedicated to financing the artistic.

Articles by Carolina Biquard

Guest Articles

Friday
June 18
2021

Carolina Biquard / Laura Callanan / Fran Sanderson

Creativity, Culture and Capital: Why Impact Investors Should Recognize the Untapped Potential of the Global Creative Economy

Impact investors have been overlooking a large and rapidly growing sector, one driven by women, youth and other overlooked workers and entrepreneurs and aligned with many key impact priorities: the creative economy. Laura Callanan at Upstart Co-Lab, Fran Sanderson at Nesta and Carolina Biquard at Fundación Compromiso explain why the industry is a powerful force for social and economic development, and share insights from a recent report from Creativity, Culture & Capital, a new initiative that seeks to develop the global creative economy through impact investing.

Categories
Investing, Social Enterprise

Tags
creative economy, impact investing, SDGs, social enterprise

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Creativity, Culture and Capital: Why Impact Investors Should Recognize the Untapped Potential of the Global Creative Economy