In her role as Impact Director, Lucy works with portfolio companies to measure their impact and assesses the likely impact of potential investments. She also ensures that the fund has an approach to impact that maximises the social and financial return of the portfolio.

Lucy has over ten years of experience of measuring social impact in both the UK and internationally. She has worked at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Building Markets and New Philanthropy Capital working with partners including the World Bank, Government of Kenya and Sesame Workshop and measuring impact in sectors from violence against women to neonatal survival.

She holds an MSc in Economics from Birkbeck College and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge.