Karen E. Wilson

London Business School & GV Partners

Karen E. Wilson is Founder & CEO of GV Partners, and a senior advisor on sustainability, ESG and impact. She has worked across the public and private sectors, including over 12 years leading work at the OECD on financing sustainable development, impact investment and impact measurement, as well as co-leading the launch of the Impact Management Platform.

Karen is Affiliate Faculty and a Guest Lecturer at London Business School and a Visiting Lecturer at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. She also serves as a Non-Executive Director, on advisory boards and chairs panels related to sustainability and impact investing.

She was a non-resident Senior Fellow at Bruegel from 2012 - 2017 and a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation 2008-2012. Karen was a member of the G7 Impact Taskforce Working Group on Impact Reporting, Integrity and Transparency and served on the Global Impact Investment Steering Group (GSG) Board of Trustees Strategy Committee.

She was named an inaugural Sorenson Global Impact Leader. Karen teaches and works with business leaders on sustainability and impact strategy and has authored several publications including The Impact Imperative for Sustainable Development for the OECD.