Keynote Speakers

Lisa Hall is a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University’s Beeck Center, which engages global leaders to drive social change and impact at scale. She has dedicated her 25-year career to economic justice, social impact and community development. Using the tools of impact investing and philanthropy, she has served in executive roles across multiple sectors in the United States and abroad. Her area of focus at the Beeck Center is the inclusive economy. She is leading the Beeck Center’s work on Fair Finance.

Lisa previously served as a Managing Director at Anthos Asset Management, headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands where she was based for three years. She also served as CEO and President of Calvert Foundation from 2010 to 2013, following her tenure as head of the investment portfolio from 2005 to 2010. Lisa served in the Clinton Administration in 1999 as a policy advisory at the National Economic Council where she worked on the creation of the New Markets Investment Tax Credit. Lisa currently serves on several boards including City First Bank, in Washington, DC; Toniic; and Habitat for Humanity International. She is also an independent member of the Investment Committee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, which has committed to 100% mission alignment of their portfolio. Lisa earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania. She is active on Twitter @lisagreenhall

​Tristan has more than a decade of experience working in more than 20 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and for the past 8 years in East and South Asia.

Tristan Leads the British Council’s work in social enterprise and social impact investment in the Asia Pacific region and is responsible for the flagship policy and government engagement programme which provides support to develop social entrepreneurship policy and strategy in the region. Through this programme, he has developed a range of partnerships with government and regional organisations such as UNESCAP, World Bank and AVPN.

Tristan is passionate about the role that social enterprises can play in building fair, inclusive and just societies and has a particular interest in both the role that social enterprise can play in strengthening civil society and the role that governments can play in driving innovation in policy that support social entrepreneurship more broadly. He is currently based in Hong Kong, but has previously lived and worked in Beijing and Yangon.

Tristan regularly speaks at forums and conferences on themes relating to social enterprise, social investment and social innovation in Asia and the UK and sits on the East Asia steering committee of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) network, advises the UNDPs Youth Co: Lab project and sits on the advisory board of the UK charity _Social Starters. He also regularly teaches and guest lectures on social entrepreneurship and social innovation at universities in Hong Kong and the region.

Awerangi has recently taken on the role of Chief Operating Officer for the New Zealand Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency. She has been with the Commissioning Agency since its inception supporting the establishment and rollout of a commissioning for outcomes model that commissions within vulnerable indigenous communities. A wellbeing model based on priorities identified by families.

She is also the COO for Urban Whānau Organisation – Te Whānau O Waipareira Trust, a community based institution that advocates for family wellbeing, undertakes delivery of integrated models of services and measures the impact of its delivery to the community.

Awerangi has spent the last 3 decades working to support development of policy, blueprinting gamechangers together with operationalising systemic change that contributes to the success and wellbeing of Māori. Her career has spanned central government, regional crown entities, the private sector and working within her own tribal communities.

More recently her work has focused on social innovation and evidencing social impact in the Whānau Ora space. A New Zealand Woman of Influence Finalist and also a Board member of Māori Economic Development Advisory Board (MEDAB) of which it’s Maori Economic development goals are also underpinned by outcomes progressing the wellbeing of Māori.

Naina joined AVPN as our Chief Executive Officer from September 2013, and has been appointed as Chairperson in May 2018. Naina's leadership over the past 5 years has grown the AVPN membership by more than 3x and elevated the organization into a truly regional force for good. Under her direction, the organization has grown from focusing only on Venture Philanthropy to supporting the entire ecosystem of Social Funders from philanthropists to impact investors and Corporate CSR professionals. She was instrumental in developing AVPN's innovative services that connect, empower and educate the now 500+ members of AVPN.

Prior to joining AVPN, Naina was a member of the senior leadership team of a purpose driven unit of The Monitor Group, a leading global strategy consulting firm, aimed at catalyzing markets for social change. Naina was also partner and Co-Founder of Group Fifty Private Ltd, curating contemporary Indian art with a view to provide a medium for upcoming and established Indian artists to showcase their work directly to a large and diverse audience.

Prior to joining AVPN, Naina was a member of the senior leadership team of a purpose driven unit of The Monitor Group, a leading global strategy consulting firm, aimed at catalyzing markets for social change. Naina was also partner and Co-Founder of Group Fifty Private Ltd, curating contemporary Indian art with a view to provide a medium for upcoming and established Indian artists to showcase their work directly to a large and diverse audience.

Matthew manages WBCSDs work on measurement and valuation of non-financial capital, including the Social and Human Capital Coalition.

Matthew has 9 years of experience working in the field of business and sustainability, in both NGO's and the private sector and holds a Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery, and a Master's Degree in the Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia.