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• Africa’s Unbanked: Where FinTech Is Finding the Most Resilient Returns | Mohamed Okasha, DisrupTech Ventures 20.05.2026 1h 39min

  What does it take to build a billion-dollar fintech company and then walk away from it to start over during a global pandemic? In this episode, Mohamed Okasha shares the story behind helping to build Fawry into Egypt’s first tech unicorn—and then leaving shortly after its landmark IPO to launch DisrupTech, a first-time venture capital fund during COVID-19. He breaks down what matters more than big ideas and what is often the ultimate competitive advantage in Africa’s startup ecosy...
• VC for Learning: How Outcome Funds Are Transforming Education in Emerging Markets with Amel Karboul 06.05.2026 1h 43min

  Impact investing is entering a more disciplined, outcomes-driven phase, and it’s more complex than it first appears. In this episode of Sustainable & Responsible Investing 360, I sit down with Amel Karboul, Founder and CEO of the Education Outcomes Fund, to explore how capital can be tied directly to measurable results. Drawing on her experience working with governments, philanthropies, and impact investors, Amel explains why traditional funding models often fail to deliver real impact, a...
• Impact Investing in 2026: What Survives, What Scales, and What Changes with Eric Rice 24.04.2026 1h 10min

  Impact investing is entering a new phase, and it’s more nuanced than the headlines suggest. In this episode of Sustainable & Responsible Investing 360, I sit down with returning guest Eric Rice for his third appearance to unpack what’s really happening across global markets. Drawing on his experience at Wellington Management and BlackRock, and now in private markets with SEAF (Small Enterprise Assistance Funds), Eric explains why this moment reflects divergence rather than decline. While ...
• Storage Enables, VC Proves, Science Validates: The Full Case for Climate Investing 15.04.2026 1h 28min

  What does climate investing look like when it actually delivers returns? In this special compilation episode of Sustainable & Responsible Investing 360, I bring together three investors approaching the climate opportunity from very different angles, yet arriving at a similar conclusion. First, Ben Guest of Gresham House explains why battery energy storage is the missing piece of the renewable energy transition. As intermittent power sources like wind and solar scale, storage becomes essen...
• The Catalytic Capital Playbook: How £10M Unlocked £2B in Private Investment 07.04.2026 1h 6min

  What if the real constraint in impact investing isn’t a lack of capital… but how that capital is structured? This is a compilation episode built from three conversations, each tackling a different part of the same question. What is catalytic capital? How do you create the conditions for it? And what happens when you deploy it at scale? You’ll hear from Yasemin Saltuk Lamy, Head of Investment Strategy at Legal & General, who helped define impact investing during her time at J.P. Morgan and...
• In Case You Missed It: Must-Hear Conversations Shaping Impact in 2026 26.03.2026 1h 21min

  Over the past several weeks, I have had the opportunity to speak with four leaders working at the intersection of capital, climate, and system-level change, each bringing a distinct perspective on what it takes to move from intention to real-world impact. Across these conversations, we explored everything from outcomes-based financing and government-backed impact models to regenerative finance and ownership structures, to early-stage climate investing in Southeast Asia. What connects th...
• AgTech Profits Meet Planet: Where Climate Impact and VC Returns Align | Sarah Nolet, Tenacious Ventures (#128) 18.03.2026 1h 33min

  In climate investing, credibility is often associated with breakthrough technologies or large-scale energy infrastructure. This episode challenges that assumption by asking a different question: what if some of the most compelling climate investment opportunities lie within the everyday realities of farming? My guest this week is Sarah Nolet, Co-Founder and General Partner at Tenacious Ventures. With a background that spans systems engineering, hands-on farming experience, and venture capital...
• From Mud Huts to Brick Houses: Venture Capital & Climate Resilience in Africa 11.03.2026 1h 26min

  Climate finance conversations often focus on mitigation. However, the question Tamer El-Raghy raises is more structural: what if one of the most compelling climate investment opportunities lies in helping smallholder farmers adapt? In this episode of Sustainable & Responsible Investing 360, I’m joined by Tamer El-Raghy, Managing Director of the Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF). Tamer leads one of the first investment vehicles dedicated to climate adaptation in agriculture across A...
• Alpha Strategy: Eliminating Bias to Unlock 4X Venture Outperformance 05.03.2026 1h 42min

  In venture capital, credibility is often framed around access, networks, and pattern recognition. This episode challenges that foundation by asking a harder question: what if the industry’s biggest blind spot is also its most persistent source of mispriced opportunity? My guest this week is Sharon Vosmek, CEO and Managing Partner of Astia. With more than two decades of early-stage investing experience, Sharon has built one of the most structured bias-mitigation processes in venture through As...
• Scaling Impact & Alpha: Inside T. Rowe Price’s Myth-Busting Impact Fixed-Income Strategies | Matt Lawton 26.02.2026 1h 39min

  In fixed income, credibility is tested differently, and real world metrics like liquidity, scale, and benchmark scrutiny leave little room for storytelling. This episode examines how impact strategies can operate inside mainstream credit markets without weakening financial discipline or diluting measurable outcomes. My guest this week is, Matt Lawton, Matt is the Head of Impact Fixed Income at T. Rowe Price, where he leads global credit and emerging market blue bond strategies. With more tha...
• Beyond the 2/20 Model: Disrupting VC & 25% IRR from Climate Adaptation in Southeast Asia 17.02.2026 1h 23min

  Most climate investment still flows toward mitigation, technologies designed to reduce future emissions. Far less capital is directed toward climate adaptation, despite the fact that many regions are already living with the physical, economic, and social consequences of climate change. This imbalance is especially visible in emerging markets, where climate risk, rapid economic growth, and limited institutional infrastructure collide. In this episode of SRI360, I’m joined by Alina Truhina, Fou...
• Regenerative Finance and Biodiversity: The Risk Investors Keep Mispricing 05.02.2026 2h 17min

  What happens when sustainability strategies fail to address real climate risk and long-term investment outcomes? In this episode of SRI360, I am speaking with Laura Ortiz Montemayor about impact investing, climate risk, and regenerative finance, and why sustainability alone may no longer be enough for investors focused on long-term value creation. Drawing from Laura’s experience in traditional finance and her work building regenerative investment strategies in Latin America, the conversation ...
• Alpha From Inertia: How Paying for Outcomes Unlocks Impact Investing Returns 21.01.2026 1h 31min

  The biggest risk investors face right now isn’t just climate change, geopolitics, or emerging-market volatility. The real threat in impact investing is inertia. Capital stays in familiar places because big asset owners can get satisfactory returns elsewhere. So, unless incentives and information change, inertia wins. This episode is about why social investment keeps getting stuck, even when good people across government, finance, and communities are trying to do the right thing – and what act...
• How AgTech Venture Capital Harvests Alpha and Impact in Latin America 15.01.2026 2h 4min

  Agrifood and AgTech investing in Latin America is still widely misunderstood. That gap between perception and reality is creating real opportunity for patient, specialized investors who understand agriculture as a long-term operating business, not a short-cycle investment theme. Volatility here is often mistaken for weakness. But as this conversation makes clear, agribusiness has kept growing through recessions, pandemics, and political transitions. In many cases, it’s been one of the most re...
• How Catalytic Capital Turns High-Risk Assets Into Pension-Grade Investments 06.01.2026 42min

  Catalytic capital is often described as concessional capital, sometimes accepting lower returns. But this framing overlooks what matters most. In practice, catalytic capital steps in first, absorbs the risk others can’t, and makes institutional capital comfortable enough to follow. If you’re involved in capital allocation, this matters because catalytic capital isn’t about charity. It’s about structuring risk so institutions can invest in assets they normally couldn’t because of regulatory an...
• Why Sustainable Forestry Beats Traditional Timber Models on Risk and Returns 30.12.2025 1h 5min

  Forestry is often treated as just timber production. But in this 2-in-1 compilation about sustainable forestry, you’ll hear a different way of thinking. One that looks beyond timber to carbon, biodiversity, water, and resilience. I revisit key moments from two earlier episodes that look at sustainable forestry as a serious investment strategy and a practical example of nature-based investing. They show how forests can deliver competitive returns, hedge inflation, and reduce portfolio risk whi...
• Circular Economy Investing: VC Returns from Fashion’s Broken Logistics 23.12.2025 1h 4min

  The apparel industry is a $3 trillion market. But a massive share of what it produces goes straight to waste. That combination points to mispriced inputs and broken systems. And to real opportunities for circular economy solutions that work on both the business side and the environmental side. In this end-of-year gift to listeners, I'm revisiting a conversation that shows where to look for investment opportunity: at overproduction, reverse logistics that don’t work, and at a system where bran...
• Green Bonds 101: Two Women Who Built the Market from Scratch 16.12.2025 1h 4min

  Green bonds sound simple until you try to separate the real ones from the 50 shades of green flooding today’s market. This episode offers an insider framework to distinguish credible green bonds from greenwashing, understand what real additionality looks like in fixed income, and make more confident capital-allocation decisions in a label-driven market. It revisits early conversations with Marilyn Ceci and Romina Reversi, leaders who helped build the green bond market before sustainable finan...
• How Blended Finance Powers 8% IRR in Emerging Market Utilities 09.12.2025 1h 22min

  Blended finance is making hard deals in emerging markets investable. It drives real infrastructure development where capital markets are thin. And when the work involves emergency aid and building businesses, you need someone who’s seen how money really works in emerging markets. Few people know how to make those pieces fit together better than my guest today. Talmage Payne has spent three decades proving that mission-first investing can deliver both measurable social impact and competitive r...
• Venture Capital’s New Frontier: Why India Wins in AgriTech, Rural Fintech, & Climate Resilience 02.12.2025 1h 25min

  My guest is Mark Kahn, Managing Partner at Omnivore, a $295 million venture capital firm investing in startups across agriculture, food, and the rural economy in India, focused on climate risk resilience. In this episode, we talk about how venture capital can be redesigned to fund climate adaptation in the real economy, and still deliver real returns. Mark shares what he’s learned from over a decade investing in agritech and climate adaptation in India, and why institutional investors continu...