The Blended Finance Podcast20 Touko 2024

Episode 4: A global investor's journey into impact investment and blended finance with Vikram Gandhi, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School

In our fourth episode, we speak to Vikram Gandhi, who wears many hats. After a long and illustrious career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse, Vikram co-founded Asha Ventures, an impact VC fund, and Asha Impact, a think tank advocating for structural change for people and the planet through policy, in India, with a focus on giving back to society. He has been a supporter of The Blended Finance Company since its inception, given his belief in the power of blended finance to drive impact at scale. He shares his journey in this space, what he has learned from being on both the commercial and concessional sides of investments, and his wisdom about what's needed further.

Time stamps:

2:39: Vikram’s background and what got him interested in blended finance

9:30: The missing middle and how capital access can be instrumental for this segment. Example quoted by Vikram, Brazil’s Estimulo

11:00: Blended finance’s role beyond microfinance in sectors such as climate and how policy can be catalytic to the sector’s growth

14:12: How different capital pools can be used strategically to create leverage and create impact at scale not possible before

17:30: Vikram’s role in incubating TBFC and the hypothesis behind it: learning from experiences with Social Finance and the traditional challenges associated with structuring blended finance transactions

25:10: What will it take for blended finance to succeed in India

29:35: Vikram’s course at HBS on Sustainable Investing and insights from the classroom

37:05: Where can blended finance play the biggest role and where it can’t, with impact being built in business models from the start versus areas where there isn't, with a large section in the middle

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Episode 23: Financing Asia’s Green Transition with Nikki Kemp

In this episode, we speak with Nikki Kemp, Executive Director at the Singapore Green Finance Centre, about what it will take to mobilise capital for Asia’s transition. Drawing on her background across...

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Episode 22: Financing Resilience, Inclusion, and Development with Karanraj Chaudri

In this episode, we speak with Karanraj Chaudri, Regional Specialist at UNDP Asia-Pacific and Sustainable Finance Advisor at UNDP in India, about the evolving role of blended and innovative financing ...

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Episode 21: From Pilot to Scale: Outcomes-Based Financing in India with Manjula Singh

In this episode of The Blended Finance Podcast, we speak with Manjula Singh, Executive Director, India at the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). Drawing on over 25 years of leadership acros...

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Episode 20: Parametric Insurance, Blended Finance, and Climate Resilience with Charlie Langdale

In this episode, we speak with Charlie Langdale, CEO of Humanity Insured, to discuss how insurance can serve as a tool for climate resilience rather than just risk transfer. From its origins at COP26 ...

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Episode 19: Learning, Building, Executing: Two Years of TBFC

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Episode 18: Building Systems & Mobilizing Capital with Nachiket Mor

Join Nirav Khambhati for a masterclass in development finance with Nachiket Mor, one of India's foremost thinkers on institutional design and capital mobilization. Discover how the Gates Foundation's ...

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Episode 17: Discussing Quality, Capital & Maternal Health with Pompy Sridhar

In this episode, Nirav Khambhati speaks with Pompy Sridhar, India Director at MSD for Mothers, who shares how innovative finance, quality accreditation, and public-private collaboration are transformi...

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