This course empowers catalytic capital stewards to achieve greater impact and mobilize private investment through innovative and blended financing solutions.
Programme overview
Catalytic capital and collective action play a vital role in addressing pressing societal challenges. Using innovative and blended finance can be a powerful solution to create larger-scale, positive impact collaboratively.
This three-day executive program, organized by the Initiative for Blended Finance in partnership with the Competence Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth at the University of St. Gallen, Roots of Impact, and Convergence, equips decision-makers deploying catalytic capital with the latest insights and innovations to navigate a rapidly changing world and choose the most effective instruments to achieve their impact agendas. In its 10th and updated iteration, the proven IIBF executive education program is again led by world-class experts and practitioners in blended and innovative finance. It combines real-world application, case-based learning, interactive group work, focused deep dives, and lively peer exchange with important academic research and insights.
The IIBF program covers the full spectrum of blended finance archetypes and mechanisms, and expands to related approaches such as impact investing, incentive design, and impact-linked finance. It also conveys a thorough understanding of the key drivers and motivations of all stakeholders in blended and innovative finance transactions, to enable an effective collaboration for stronger impact.
Participants will explore what it takes to decide, design, and implement successful blended and innovative finance projects and understand what experienced practitioners have learned from both successes and mistakes in various regions and impact sectors such as climate, agriculture, healthcare, gender, energy transition, and others. Specifically, the course will focus on how to empower high-potential enterprises as key drivers for impact on the ground.
Whether you’re a program or project manager at a foundation, a family office, a development agency, an executive at a development finance institution, or a decision-maker in catalytic impact investing, you’ll leave this program with a sharper and more actionable understanding of how you can deploy capital collaboratively for stronger and more sustainable impact in a changing world.
True to the St. Gallen motto “From Insight to Impact”, this unique course is hands-on, thought-provoking, myth-busting, and firmly rooted in both practical relevance and academic research. To date, more than 200 IIBF alumni have attended this unique program, out of which 99.9% rated it “very good” or “excellent”.
