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Gayle Peterson
Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, Oxford University

Gayle Peterson holds an MA in Social Policy from the University of Chicago and an MSc from HEC-Paris School of Management and Oxford University. Gayle is Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, Oxford University, where she is a founder of the Women Transforming Leadership Programme and director of the Oxford Impact Investing and Social Finance programmes. Gayle has more than 25 years of experience as strategist, philanthropist and trusted advisor to social investors worldwide.

Articles by Gayle Peterson

Wednesday
January 3
2018

Gayle Peterson / Sanjana Govil / Clint Bartlett

How to Address the Power Imbalance in Impact Investing? Shut Up and Listen

It started with a USD 22 million investment in a farm in Ghana’s Afram Plains District. The investment was designed to reduce hunger, create jobs and provide economic opportunities for 80,000 smallholder farmers. That's not how it turned out. Gayle Peterson of Oxford's Impact Investing Programme and her colleagues explore a real-world case of impact investing gone wrong.

Categories
Impact Assessment, Investing

Tags
impact investing, research

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Gayle Peterson
Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, Oxford University

Articles by Gayle Peterson

How to Address the Power Imbalance in Impact Investing? Shut Up and Listen

Contributor.

Gayle PetersonAssociate Fellow at Saïd Business School, Oxford University

Articles by Gayle Peterson

How to Address the Power Imbalance in Impact Investing? Shut Up and Listen

Gayle Peterson
Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, Oxford University