Edward Jackson is Honorary Associate affiliated with the Business, Markets and the State research cluster. His current research interests include ecosystem-building and evaluation in gender lens investing, impact investing and innovative finance and their evaluation, and scaling community-university partnerships for affordable housing and other forms of social infrastructure.
A former faculty member in public policy, international affairs and African studies, and associate dean, at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, Professor Jackson has also served as a management consultant and program evaluator to development agencies, foundations, governments, NGOs, and universities in 60 countries on all continents, with a special focus West and Southern Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.
An Associate Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment, Professor Jackson is co-editor of the special JSFI issue on Growing Gender Lens Investing in Emerging Markets (2022). He is also co-editor, with four other colleagues, of Knowledge, Democracy and Action: Community-University Research Partnerships in Global Perspectives (Manchester University Press, 2013). Other recent publications have focused on impact investing and the care economy (The Next Billion, 2021), and on strategies for evaluating blended finance instruments (OECD, 2021).
Ted Jackson has received honours and awards for his leadership and innovation in responsible investment, program evaluation, community development, development management, graduate teaching, and community-campus engagement. He holds Ed.D and M.Ed degrees in adult education and community development from the University of Toronto and a BA (Hons) in psychology from the University of Western Ontario. He also earned certification as a responsible investment professional from the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment and the Responsible investment Association of Canada.
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Recent research
Growing Gender Lens Investing in Emerging Markets Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment Edited by Edward T. Jackson (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, United Kingdom) and Carolina Robino (International Development Research Centre, Montevideo, Uruguay).
The authors write:
‘Driven by reciprocal scholar-practitioner partnerships, future research on the growth of gender lens investing in emerging markets should be Southern directed, methodologically plural, anchored in open data, and actionable in real time’,
With IDRC’s support, the full special issue is permanently open access, here.
