Lindsey Garvey
Lindsey recently joined The Good Economy as our Finance Manager, bringing with her nearly 20 years of experience as a qualified chartered accountant. She is fully committed to providing excellent service and ensuring the highest level of financial management for the organization.
Lindsey has a wealth of experience working with both UK-based and overseas entities. Her expertise lies in streamlining financial processes, maintaining meticulous attention to detail, and delivering accurate and insightful financial information to stakeholders at all levels.
Adem Dervish
Adem is a new Impact Analyst at The Good Economy, coming straight from his MSc in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Management from King’s College London. Although he is beginning his career at TGE, Adem has a range of practical experience, including an ESG consulting internship with ADEC Innovations, as part of his MSc. He also gained valuable experience working as an account executive at a creative marketing firm, and as a research assistant at the University of Reading.
Adem will be working across a range of the impact services project provided at TGE and is highly motivated by having his work positively impact major societal and environmental issues. He is eager to help clients measure and manage their social impact to achieve their impact goals.
Rupert Peach
At The Good Economy Rupert acts as an assistant to the team undertaking company research and researching specific policy or project-related topics. He is involved in the collection and analysis of project-related data, offers day-to-day project management support, and assists in the wider business development process, including the research of potential new clients.
Ken Hart
Ken joined The Good Economy in April 2024 as its first Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operating Officer. His focus at TGE is to build professional financial information ranging from cashflow and P&L forecasting to systems and processes. His mandate also includes instilling rigorous financial and operational expertise across all areas of the business, and to assist and advise the CEO and Board.
He brings significant experience in professional services, and in particular with SMEs through his other role as Financial Director for Atlantis Health UK, a medical communications agency which he joined in early 2023.
From 2000 to 2022, he worked in a number of finance roles at the marketing services group DDB, initially based in Paris before moving to London and later becoming Deputy CFO EMEA. Prior to DDB, he worked at Total Energies for six years, firstly in London then in Paris within the Corporate Finance team.
Ken started his career with Deloitte in Glasgow. He is a Chartered Accountant with a BA in Accounting and Economics.
Jenni Zietch
Jenni has over five years’ experience working across the impact investing spectrum with specialist expertise in impact measurement and management. As a Senior Consultant in impact services, she helps private equity, debt and venture capital clients understand, measure and improve their impact.
Jenni previously worked for Brightlight Impact, an Australian investment management firm delivering investment and impact returns for institutional investors. She led work on impact investing strategies, client engagement, due diligence and impact measurement and management systems across multiple themes including affordable housing, women’s empowerment and healthcare. She has experience of multiple product types including listed and unlisted funds, blended finance vehicles and social impact bonds.
Prior to that, Jenni worked as a Research Analyst for the Australian pension fund Christian Super, a leading impact investor. She wrote the first impact report for Christian Super analysing the impact and financial performance of 200 underlying investments.
Jenni is passionate about helping clients integrate impact considerations into their investment strategy and scaling-up the impact investment market to help transform lives and achieve inclusive and sustainable development globally.
She holds a Bachelor of Commerce (majoring in finance) and a Bachelor of Engineering with first class honours. Her honours thesis examined renewable energy options in Papua New Guinea.
Samantha Curtis
Samantha has fifteen years of experience working in both asset management and impact investment. She is a Senior Consultant at The Good Economy, working with Global Funds clients, supporting them to improve and integrate their impact into reporting and decision-making.
Samantha started her career in asset management, working with Baillie Gifford in their Clients Department, supporting global institutional investors on portfolio analysis and reporting, covering a variety of asset classes. She also worked on proposal writing, business development, marketing and investment writing.
In more recent years, Samantha has lived and worked in Nairobi, Kenya where she has experience consulting for impact investors such as LGT Impact, non-profits and ESG firms, working in various roles including project management, research, business development and portfolio impact reviews.
Samantha’s diverse career experience has developed her passion for commercially driven social and environmental impact, utilising investment to provide positive impact on people, place and planet.
She holds a first class BA (Hons) degree in Business Studies and an MBA from the University of Birmingham where she achieved honours with distinction. Her MBA dissertation focussed on the importance of transparency and accountability in the impact investment industry and whether existing industry metrics are sufficient in providing effective evaluation of impact.
Sakshi Chaudhary
Sakshi has over two years experience in the impact evaluation sector, with a particular focus in housing. She has a background in evaluating the social impact of community-led charitable interventions across a range of sectors, including housing, education and health.
Prior to joining TGE, Sakshi worked as a research analyst at a fast growing social impact evaluation company in New Zealand's capital. There she gained expertise in consolidating multiple sources of evidence to gain the most robust representation of an organisation's social impact. This included generating intervention logics, social return on investment (SROI) analysis and providing organisations with actionable insights to improve data collection and service delivery. She is interested in assisting organisations to not only measure their social impact but improve upon it.
Sakshi moved to the UK from New Zealand and joined TGE in October 2022, working primarily in our housing team to undertake analysis and provide written reports. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce (majoring in Economics) and Bachelor of Arts (majoring in International Relations) from Victoria University of Wellington.
Mieke Hallyn
Mieke is an impact specialist, with over seven years experience conducting research into vulnerable populations and embedding impact measurement and management systems within organisations.
Prior to joining the TGE team, Mieke spent five years at Breaking Barriers, an organisation that supports refugees into stable and secure employment, building their programmes, monitoring and evaluation systems, and thought leadership strategy. Prior to that she worked for Impact Initiatives in South Sudan and Jordan researching the needs of refugees and internally displaced persons.
Mieke has a MA in Development Economics and International Cooperation and a BSc in Psychology.
She works primarily with our housing team, supporting clients to develop impact measurement and management systems, and driving best practices through collaborative projects.
Larissa Kirkpatrick
Larissa joined The Good Economy in 2021 after gaining valuable experience at an impact advisory firm in the Channel Islands. As a Consultant in the Impact Services team, she delivers TGE's impact verification and assurance services and works on TGE's emerging markets and multi-year Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) engagements.
Larissa played a key role in developing TGE's impact verification and assurance offerings and specialises in assessing impact management systems in line with the Impact Principles and assuring impact performance data against the AA1000 Assurance Standard. Her in-depth technical knowledge of global impact measurement and management practices informs her comprehensive research, development of impact measurement and management systems, custom evaluations, impact data analysis, and impact reporting for a diverse range of investors and enterprises.
Larissa is passionate about driving intentional impact creation, promoting transparency, and encouraging the adoption of best practices in the rapidly evolving impact investing sector. She holds a BA in Development Studies and Politics from SOAS, University of London, and a CFA Certificate in ESG Investing.
Isobel Tan
Isobel is an Impact Analyst at The Good Economy (TGE), having graduated with a first-class degree in International Development with Economics at the University of Bath in 2022. The degree involved a year-long placement at TGE. Her academic background provides a grounding in economic development, social change and place-making.
She works across a range of impact services projects, including housing and real estate clients, providing day-to-day support with projects, analysis and research.
Isobel is currently undertaking a part-time Masters in Urban Planning, with specialist interest in the social impacts of planning and architecture. She has experience volunteering cross-culturally and in the UK with faith organisations and charities.