Kieron Boyle is Chief Executive of Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation, one of the world's oldest independent foundations. Kieron also leads Impact on Urban Health — a pioneer in unlocking the potential for cities to be healthier. Part of Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation, Impact on Urban Health works with businesses, governments, and communities to demonstrate new ways of addressing urban health inequalities.
Kieron previously led the UK government's work on impact investment. In this role he formed the G8 taskforce on social impact investment, and led initiatives creating the Access Foundation, Government Outcomes Lab and Dementia Discovery Fund.
Prior to this he worked at No.10 Downing Street, the Department for Business, the Foreign Office and the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit. He started his career at the Boston Consulting Group. Kieron sits on the Boards of Big Society Capital, the Design Council and Catch22. He chairs LIPH — a global coalition of institutional investors working to improve people's health — as well as Nesta's Cultural Impact Development Fund. He a is member of the Mayor of London’s Childhood Obesity Taskforce and on the advisory council of the Impact Investing Institute. In 2014 Kieron was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
William Burckart is the President of The Investment Integration Project (TIIP), a consulting services and applied research firm that provides advice, thought leadership and a turnkey solution to help investors manage systemic risks and opportunities. Mr. Burckart has advised a range of clients, including investment management firms, private foundations and endowments, government and major industry bodies, working with them to integrate impact and investment goals through the development and implementation of related strategies.
He has also contributed to the field through groundbreaking research, including the development of market insights and practical guidance for investors and financial advisors in collaboration with the Money Management Institute (MMI); co-editing the New Frontiers of Philanthropy: A Guide to the New Tools and Actors that Are Reshaping Global Philanthropy and Social Investing (Oxford University Press), and helping to write the “Status of the Social impact investing Market: A Primer” (UK Cabinet Office) that was distributed to policymakers at the inaugural G8-level forum on impact investing. His writing has been featured in Barron’s, Pensions & Investments, The Guardian, Forbes, Quartz, top1000funds, InvestmentNews, Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), ImpactAlpha, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and FundFire to name a few. Mr. Burckart is a fellow of the High Meadows Institute and co-author of the book 21st Century Investing: Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change (Berrett-Koehler, 2021).
