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Joe Ludlow

Director, Impact Investment

Joe Ludlow

Joe Ludlow

Alumni

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Joe lead Nesta Impact Investments, a £17.6m investment fund for innovative social ventures in the fields of ageing, young people and sustainability.  Joe is a board member of Bethnal Green Ventures, the leading accelerator programme for technology based social ventures, on the Advisory Council of the Impact Investing Policy Collaborative.

Joe has been as a senior manager at CAF Venturesome and began his career with the TeachFirst programme teaching in a secondary school in the London Borough of Hackney.

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Investing in Innovative Social Ventures

Toolkit
29.06.15

Impact investing top tips

Report
19.05.15
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Top Tips Series: 3 tips for 'thinking big'

Blog
10.04.15
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3 ways to fix the drop-out problem in education

Blog
02.02.15
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Social Impact Investment: are we nearly there yet?

Blog
15.09.14
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Impact investment: What is on the horizon for 2014?

Blog
07.01.14
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New tax reliefs for social investment: here's what we think

Blog
06.12.13
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Nesta Standards of Evidence

Report
29.10.13

Impact Investing blog series

Report
14.12.12
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Standards of Evidence for Impact Investing

Report
30.09.12

Twenty catalytic investments to grow the social investment market

Report
13.04.11

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