Research
My research focuses on impact measurement and management — how the field emerged, why it looks the way it does, and what questions it now faces. I have also compiled frameworks, tools, and resources that I use and teach.
A layered set of resources I have developed or contributed to — for investors, ventures, and foundations.
A layered set of resources — including frameworks, tools, and a learning cohort — for foundations and family offices to integrate systems perspectives across strategy, investment, and IMM.
Explore the work →Introduces a four-phase framework and provides worksheets for both ventures and investors to identify the key questions, inform choices, and improve alignment within and across each other.
immjourney.com →Handbook by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors that provides detailed yet practical end-to-end guidance for asset owners on impact investing strategy, implementation, IMM, and governance. I co-authored chapters 3 (on theory of change) and 5 (on IMM).
Read the handbook →A comprehensive review of the formative phase of the impact investment industry — tracking achievements, surfacing challenges, and identifying priorities for building the field.
Read the report →Publications
Additional publications are listed on the Projects and Publications page and on ResearchGate.
Recent webinars and recordings on impact measurement, systems thinking, and family office practice — each opens on YouTube.
Approaches, insights, and actionable guidance for family offices developing IMM approaches — featuring Wilstar, Builders Vision, and Good & Well.
Watch on YouTube →How systems-informed perspectives are reshaping impact strategy, investment practice, reporting, and learning.
Watch on YouTube →Translating systems thinking into practical investment and measurement strategies, with insights from pioneering investors Acumen and Access.
Watch on YouTube →Frameworks and lessons from experienced IMM practitioners, plus a new playbook for integrating systems thinking across the investment lifecycle.
Watch on YouTube →Doctoral Research
I pursued my doctorate (DPhil) part-time at Kellogg College, University of Oxford — as a way to examine the broader questions about IMM’s emergence and evolution more carefully than practice alone allows, bringing together institutional theory and sustained empirical inquiry.
The research examined IMM’s development as a field over a decade, drawing on wide-ranging interviews with investors, standard-setters, intermediaries, and practitioners, alongside detailed analysis of the field’s documents and institutional infrastructure. The research overview below presents the central findings in an accessible form — tracing the field’s evolution through phases, mapping its areas of contestation, and explaining the mechanisms that held it together as well as the implications for theory and practice.
An accessible companion to my doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford, presenting the central findings for a practitioner and field-building audience — tracing IMM’s evolution through three phases, mapping the field’s areas of contestation, examining the mechanisms that enabled coordination without convergence, and drawing out implications for practice, education, and field-building.
Read the research overview →Alongside advisory, teaching, and formal research, I build sites and resources that make ideas more accessible — experiments in how to organise knowledge and invite people into the work.
Impact investing has scaled. But has the impact? An open exploration of accountability, integrity, and what it would take to close the gap between claims and results.
impactintegrity.org →Why impact measurement needs to move beyond what we control to what we share — exploring tensions in current models and shifts toward IM that is more relevant, relational, and responsive.
Read the field note →Inspired by earlier work on evaluating the field of impact investing, where I’m exploring how we (re)define success, what has happened in the last decade, and what is needed.
impinv.org →A resource for understanding and strengthening how impact considerations can be embedded in your investments — and the practical questions to ask as a retail investor.
knowyourimpact.org →Resources I Recommend
Foundational frameworks and entry points for building an IMM approach.
For practitioners deepening and refining their existing IMM work.
Courses, communities, and resources for upskilling and working in IMM.