Social Impact Investing

SOCIAL IMPACT INVESTMENT: BUILDING THE EVIDENCE BASE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The OECD is grateful to the Department of Employment and Social Development in Canada, the
U.K. Cabinet Office, and the Bertelsmann Foundation for their support of this work.
In addition, the OECD would like to thank the Social Impact Investment Taskforce, established by the
G8 during the UK Presidency, for their input throughout the process. A particular acknowledgement is
extended to the Chair of the Taskforce, Sir Ronald Cohen, for his leadership, vision and drive in catalysing
a global movement to build the social impact investment market.
The authors would like to thank the many experts who contributed to this work including all of the
members of the Social Impact Investment Taskforce, their colleagues and others serving on the Working
Groups and National Advisory Boards.
During the course of the project, the OECD held two Social Impact Investment Expert Group
meetings and would like to thank all of those experts for their time and input. The full list of attendees is
available in Annex A.
The authors would also like to thank Dirk Pilat, Deputy Director of the Directorate for Science,
Technology and Innovation and Nick Johnstone, Head of the Structural Policy Division in the Directorate
for Science, Technology and Innovation for their support of this work and input during the process and on
drafts of the report.
In addition, the authors thank the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs for their
contributions to this work, particularly in Chapter 5 which uses data from the OECD Social Expenditure
database and builds upon their work on social policy.
The authors also thank colleagues from other OECD Directorates for their input including the Centre
for Entrepreneurship, specifically Antonella Noya and the Development Centre’s Network of Foundations
Working for Development. Other Directorates engaged in the work have included Development Cooperation
Directorate, Statistics Directorate, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, and
Directorate for Public Governance and Territorial Development.
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