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With this intelligence, our clients – some of the world’s leading corporations and investors – make better, more sustainable decisions.
With a team of 100+ scientists, engineers, data scientists and ecological and environmental economists, GIST Impact delivers market-leading impact platforms and datasets, covering 13,000+ companies with geographically precise, time-series data. GIST Impact works with pioneering companies across all sectors and with investors representing over $8 trillion in assets under management. GIST Impact also partners with some of the world’s largest ESG data providers, business networks, and fintech platforms to enable impact measurement across global markets.
Through the years, GIST Impact has evolved from its non-profit origins into a leading provider of impact data and intelligence, harnessing the power of impact economics and technology to discover the full value contribution a business makes to the world.
GIST Impact was founded in 2008, with a vision of a sustainable tomorrow: a world in which humans live in harmony with nature and enjoy the benefits of a green and equitable economy of permanence; a world in which people measure and value what matters.
In our early years, we delivered multiple country-level studies on green accounting for governments and international bodies, including the United Nations.
Our founding team led pioneering studies such as TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity – 2008) and conducted award-winning research.
We defined the space of impact economics alongside leading organisations such as the Capitals Coalition and the International Integrated Reporting Council, and worked on dozens of global projects such as the very first integrated profit and loss explorations – for companies like Akzo Nobel, BASF and Tata Chemicals – and the first full-spectrum impact evaluations of food system sustainability – TEEBAgriFood and related studies.
In the years that followed, we worked with leading businesses, harnessing the power of impact economics to understand the value contribution they were making to the world, including Amata, Soneva Group, Yarra Valley Water, Sveaskog, and many more.
We recognised that to scale our early successes and achieve our vision, we needed to leverage the power of technology and big data.
We built and continue to evolve the world’s first impact valuation engine, which combines company-level data with hundreds of thousands of location-specific impact values derived by our R&D teams using algorithms and formulae constructed and refined over a decade and a half from sound science and robust impact economics.
Today, we are the go-to provider for high-quality impact data and intelligence, and are proud to call some of the world’s largest investors and companies our clients and partners.
Intelligence you can trust from the team with the longest-standing and deepest impact experience in the market.
Our brilliant colleagues are scientists, engineers, data scientists, subject matter experts, designers and technologists. We use impact economics to understand the full value contribution a business makes to the world.
We bring diverse and global perspectives, and are based in Delhi, Geneva, London, Mumbai, and Singapore.
Former President of WWF International
UNEP Goodwill Ambassador
Study Leader of The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity (TEEB)
Author of Corporation 2020
Former banker at Deutsche Bank (MD – Global Markets)
Winner -Tyler Prize (2020), Blue Planet Prize (2016), Gothenburg Award (2013)
Former Co-Founder of Environmental Engineering Firm
9+ Years in Environmental Analytics
Masters Degree in Environmental Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay
12+ years experience in top tier strategy consulting with AT Kearney and Monitor Deloitte
Highly experienced in strategy and transformation execution
Deep specialism in digital & data, including strategy, transformation, new product development & innovation
12+ years in product innovation and sustainability at Xynteo and 4iNNO (PA Consulting)
Advisor to BirdLife International
Judge for Tech Nation’s Net Zero Climate Tech Accelerator
Bachelors degree in Political Science and Environmental Studies from Yale University
Serial entrepreneur, founder of two startups in the Identity and Food tech space
Founder and Trustee of NGO enabling educational journey of the underprivileged
8+ years experience working with technologies across domains
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from BIT, Mesra
25+ years supporting people, culture, and talent initiatives
Former Head of People Operations and Talent Leader at OakNorth Bank
Entrepreneur and founder of an executive search business, A. Linder Associates
Environmental advocate through NRDC Council of 1000 and 1% for the Planet memberships
Bachelors Degree in East Asian Studies from Cornell University and KCJS (Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies) program graduate
Head of Sustainability, FNZ Group
Founding Member, NatureAlpha
Member, Benchmark for Nature
Contributing Editor at Investments & Pensions Europe (IPE)
Advisory Board of MoneyHub & PinBox Solutions
Former Director at Aviva Investors
Managing Partner, Peak Venture Partners
Former Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers
Chief Product Officer, FNZ Group
Former Chief Executive of JHC Systems, a leading provider of platform software to the wealth management industry
Board Member: Solvay and Financiere de Tubize
Advisory Board Member, The Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society, INSEAD
Vice Chair, Roche Holdings
Founder, The Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society, INSEAD
Creator of ‘Triple Bottom Line’
CEO, Volans
Honorary Chairman & Co- Founder, SustainAbility
CEO, Capitals Coalition
Advisory Board Member, The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)
Former Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Former Minister of International Development of Norway
Deputy Vice Minister, Ministry of Finance, Japan
Executive VP, The University of Tokyo
Director, Center for Global Commons
Retired CEO, T. Rowe Price Global Investment Services
Venture Partner, Greenspring Associates
Advisor – Access Holdings, Antler, Motive Partners
Founder of Partner, sustainable development consultancy in Brazil
Expertise in public-private investments for infrastructure
Participant to the Board of:
Founder of Circe Invest
Former CEO of Unigestion
Board Member of Swiss Sustainable Finance and Sustainable Finance Geneva
Former CFO, Forico
Our team is committed to our mission to deliver impact intelligence. If you are passionate about driving sustainable progress and enabling change on a global scale, join us.
We hire from academia and industry in order to combine the latest educational insights with applied research to deliver success for our clients.
We are growing internationally and especially in business development, client delivery, product and technology.
The right team is pivotal to everything we do, solving complex business, scientific and technical problems with creativity and enthusiasm. If our work excites you, please be in touch at hr@gistimpact.com.