The winners of the 2024 Environmental Finance IMPACT Awards have been announced.
The annual awards aim to recognise and reward the work of impact investors, and highlight best practice and thought leadership across all asset classes and geographies.
An independent panel of impact investment experts chose winners based on information relating to the period between 1 April 2023 to 30 September 2024.
Among this year’s notable winners were:
- Amar Inamdar, managing director of Kenya-based impact investor KawiSafi Ventures, was named as ‘Personality of the year’ for his work in helping to unlock climate finance in Africa.
- US asset manager Community Capital Management won two awards: ‘Fund of the year – Fixed income’ for its $3.6 billion flagship Community Impact Bond fund, and ‘Impact initiative of the year’ for its ‘First-Time Homebuyer Initiative’, which allows investors to target bonds financing mortgage loans for low- and moderate-income (LMI) individuals and first-time homebuyers.
- Another multi-award winner this year was Mercer, which took home the ‘Fund of the year - Multi-asset/other’ for the Mercer PIP VII Global Impact fund, and the ‘Award for impact measurement and metrics’.
- The Young professional of the year/rising star award goes to Maria Gonzalez Senac of Climate Asset Management.
“We would like to congratulate all the winners of this year's IMPACT Awards," said Rob Langston, news editor of Environmental Finance. "We received many high-quality entries for this year’s awards, with many examples of best practice, high standards and positive impact.
"Our thanks go to all the judges who volunteered their time and expertise to help assess the many high-calibre submissions we received."
To view all of this year’s winners, visit the IMPACT Awards 2024 microsite.
Reports by Jennifer Forrest, Michael Hurley, Rob Langston, Ahren Lester, Genevieve Redgrave, Peter Cripps and Joe Walsh.
