PARTNER
Jared Penner
Jared has spent twenty years working at the intersection of development finance, social impact, and programme management across more than twenty countries. His career began in Mozambique, where he coordinated an integrated microfinance programme for local financial institutions working with communities affected by HIV/AIDS. He went on to manage a USAID-funded youth workforce development project in Afghanistan, before spending nearly a decade at Child and Youth Finance International in Amsterdam, where he led global engagement with multilateral agencies including UNICEF, UNESCO, the ILO, and the European Commission.
That work — structuring programmes that connect capital to measurable social outcomes — is the direct precursor to Impact Integration. The difference now is sector: e-waste processing in the Global South, where the environmental stakes are high, the social complexity is significant, and the financing mechanisms are still being invented.
Jared holds a Master's degree in Political Science and Development Studies from Carleton University, Canada, and is based in Amsterdam.