Ben Thornley

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Overview

Ben Thornley is a Managing Director at Pacific Community Ventures and leads PCV InSight – the global research and consulting practice in impact investing. He manages a number of projects and partnerships, including on impact investing best practices with CASE at Duke University and ImpactAssets, and on the role of policy in impact investing, with the Initiative for Responsible Investment (IRI) at the Hauser Institute for Civil Society at Harvard University and the World Economic Forum. He created the Impact Investing Policy Collaborative together with the IRI, a global network of researchers and public officials, and, as an authority in the field, was recently tasked by the White House with presenting the U.S. experience in impact investing to a G8 taskforce. He also advises institutions including CalPERS, Citi, Annie E Casey Foundation, the California Department of Insurance, and The California Endowment through PCV InSight’s work as a prominent third-party evaluator of the social and economic impacts resulting from over $25 billion of investments, across asset classes.