Jim Clifford OBE is Head of Impact at Bates Wells Braithwaite, and co-founder of “It's All About Me”, the Adoption Social Impact Bond. He served on the UK Advisory Board and the Global Social Impact Measurement working group for the Taskforce, as well as having co-chaired the European Commission’s GECES sub-group that wrote the EU standards on Impact Measurement, published in June. 

Jim heads the Advisory and Impact teams at BWB and helps social sector and private sector organisations to create, analyse, enhance and realise value through acquisitions, disposals, mergers and other structural, and transactional approaches as well as through outcomes-based planning, strategy and evaluations. He is the author of over sixty social impact studies (not-for-profit and private sectors), as well as other research assignments, and has developed and managed corporate transactions in the UK and abroad in both private and not-for-profit arenas.

Jim’s innovative work in social investment was recognised in 2013 with an OBE, having recently designed and developed the first charity-led social impact bond IAAM – ‘It’s all About Me’, which he now also chairs. IAAM is a UK-wide social enterprise finding and training therapeutic adoptive parents for harder-to-place children.

Jim's career spans over 30 years, latterly acting as head of valuations, of not-for-profit advisory, and social impact services at leading UK business advisors Baker Tilly. He continues to partner with Baker Tilly on some major projects.

Jim blends his professional work in the UK and Europe with academic research and lecturing, and selected outside appointments. Find some examples of Jim's recent work here.