Michele Giddens: driving scale and speed for change and impact

Today’s episode was recorded at the Impact Investment Summit in Sydney at the end of 2019, where I spoke with Michele Giddens. She’s co-founder of Bridges Capital, she’s based in the UK, and during our conversation she summed up really well how poignant and emotional it was to be here in Sydney, having these conversations about climate change and about investing in sustainability, with fires all around us. It really did spur a sense of urgency for shifting the way we treat this big, brown country that we call home. Michele co-founded Bridges Fund Management in 2002, alongside Philip Newborough and Sir Ronald Cohen, she has more than 25 years experience in sustainable and impact investing and, as she explains, she began to see the power of using capital markets to solve social problems in her formative years when she was working in development finance for the World Bank and the IFC. I launched this podcast a little over a year ago, and I did it with the support of the Impact Summit, so it’s great to be telling some of their stories. And we’ve got a few more guests from the Summit lined-up to be on the show in coming few weeks, so do stay tuned for that. All the show notes are over on my website at www.johntreadgold.com, and if you want to keep the conversation going, find me on Twitter @mrtreadgold