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Georgia Levenson Keohane

Adjunct Associate Professor
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Georgia Levenson Keohane
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Georgia Levenson Keohane is the CEO of the Soros Economic Development Fund, the economic development and impact investing arm of the Open Society Foundations.  She has more than twenty years of leadership experience in the private and nonprofit sectors at the intersection of the capital markets, innovative philanthropy, responsible business and investing, and public policy.  Previously, she served as President of the Navab Capital Partners (NCP) Foundation and head of the firm’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practice, and before that Executive Director of the Pershing Square Foundation.

A former McKinsey consultant, Keohane has advised CEOs, boards, management teams, and institutional, corporate, and philanthropic investors on strategy, operations, ESG, sustainable and impact investing, and inclusive growth.  She is also an adjunct professor of social enterprise at Columbia Business School, where she hosts the Capital for Good podcast.  Keohane speaks and writes regularly on social and economic policy, philanthropy, stakeholder capitalism, and the role of business in society, and is the author of two award winning books, Capital and the Common Good: How Innovative Finance is Tackling the World’s Most Urgent Problems (2016) and Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation Across the Nonprofit, Private and Public Sectors (2013). Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Time, and the Harvard Business Review, among other publications.

Keohane serves on several corporate and nonprofit boards, and holds a BA from Yale University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an MSc from London School of Economics, where she was a Fulbright Scholar.

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Levenson Keohane, Georgia
. “Why Stakeholder Capitalism Is a Good Bet in Times of Crisis.”
Columbia University Press Blog
. April 16, 2020.
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Levenson Keohane, Georgia
. “This Is What Impact Investing Is -- and How It's Different for Nonprofits.”
New York Nonprofit Media
. July 01, 2018.
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Levenson Keohane, Georgia and Saadia Madsbjerg
. “The Innovative Finance Revolution.”
Foreign Affairs
. August 01, 2016.
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