Emma Rush
Emma is highly experienced within both small and large organisations, most recently supporting the leadership team of a large international NGO. Emma keenly supports all areas of sustainable development and enjoys being at the heart of a busy, dynamic, and forward-thinking business which drives a better future for people, places and planet.
Charlie Denney
Charlie has five years’ experience in the international development sector, supporting projects in health and education abroad and in the UK. She has a background in qualitative research, programme design and monitoring and evaluation.
Prior to joining TGE, Charlie worked as an analyst at a global fund to address the learning crisis through outcomes-based commissioning. There she gained experience in designing development impact bonds and creating data platforms to systematically evaluate the impact of development interventions. Charlie has also lived and worked in Amman, Jordan, where she gained experience in both research on longitudinal research studies and in project management at UNICEF.
Charlie holds a BA degree in International Relations from Durham University and a MA in Middle Eastern Studies and Intensive Arabic from SOAS, University of London. Charlie provides research, analysis and reporting for TGE’s clients.
Ben Rosoman
Ben is a consultant at The Good Economy (TGE). He joined TGE having graduated with a first-class degree in International Development with Economics at the University of Bath. His degree also involved working at The Good Economy on a one-year student placement programme in 2017-18.
Having completed his studies, Ben re-joined TGE as a full-time staff member in 2019. Ben now works across TGE’s impact services offer, supporting clients to integrate impact into their decision-making and reporting. This predominantly involves working in the Housing and Real Estate team, though Ben is also involved in TGE’s impact services work with SME funds and businesses, and also with Impact Assured, TGE’s impact assurance and verification service.
On a day-to-day basis, Ben is responsible for the design and implementation of TGE’s impact measurement, management and reporting systems with a range of UK and international clients from across the impact investing value chain. This involves undertaking company, and specific policy- or project-related research, as well as collection and analysis of data. He helps to prepare and draft written reports and presentations for clients, as well as running workshops, and is responsible for ongoing project management.
Ben holds the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing.
Astrid Pedersen
Astrid joined TGE following her graduation from the London School of Economics and Political Science with an MSc in Political Science and Political Economy, complementing her BSc in Economics from Northeastern University. Her academic background focused on causal inference and how political and economic systems interact to create the society we live in.
Astrid previously provided consultancy for an employment programme targeting youth from lower socioeconomic backgrounds in the USA, supporting their transition to a hybrid delivery model and developing their use of data in informing decision making. Prior to this, she worked across the policy and research teams at J-PAL, a global research centre focused on reducing poverty through evidence-based policy by conducting randomised controlled trials. In this role, she advanced their catalogue of research resources and administrative data sets and made impact evaluations accessible to decision makers by summarising evaluations into digestible policy materials.
Astrid is passionate about improving the lives of disadvantaged populations and the climate by maximising the societal and environmental impact of investments. She is excited to support clients in improving their impact assessment capabilities, particularly through the use of comprehensive and quality data and robust evaluation methods.
Anna Haskins
Anna has worked within TGE’s Housing and Real Estate team for several years as an Impact Analyst and Senior Analyst. In this time Anna has conducted impact assessments at the asset and product level, with responsibilities for the collection and analysis of data, the creation of impact measurement and management tools and processes, as well as the drafting of independent impact reports. Anna has also gained experience within TGE’s impact services work with SME funds, and also with Impact Assured, TGE’s impact assurance and verification service.
Anna holds the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing and joined TGE having graduated with a MA in Development Studies at the Institute of Development Studies and a BA in Business Management and Anthropology at the University of Exeter. Her studies focused on the role of business as a development actor and the financialisation of public policy.
Amy Ingham
Amy is an impact measurement and management expert with over a decade’s experience in the UK and internationally.
Prior to joining TGE, Amy worked for Homes England, the UK government’s arms-length body sponsored by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. There, she led performance improvement initiatives across its development, investments, affordable housing and Help to Buy portfolios including the agency’s refresh of its Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to support its new strategy. She also developed performance reports and deep dive assessments for senior agency and government stakeholders.
Previously, she worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat, managing organisation-level performance reporting to the Board of Commonwealth High Commissioners and providing technical assistance to member government representatives to support the establishment of monitoring systems for newly developed policies and programmes.
Amy also worked as a Performance Advisor for the international NGO Christian Aid, where she established and managed community-led monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks for large and complex / multi-country climate resilience, governance and health programmes.
Amy is passionate about supporting clients to collect, understand and use quality evidence to maximise their positive social and environmental impact and the achievement of priority outcomes for communities through their decisions.
Amy has a degree in Modern Languages (Spanish and Portuguese) from Oxford University, and a Masters in International Studies and Diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London).
Jessica Whitcutt
Jessica has 20+ years of experience working in both agencies and multinational corporates. She has a thorough understanding of both the commercial and reputational imperatives driving business performance. She has a number of award winning behaviour change campaigns to her name and is passionate about sustainability.
She holds a BA Law from the University of the Witwatersrand, is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and has been fortunate enough to participate in various executive development programmes both in South Africa and in the UK.
Born and bred in Johannesburg, South Africa, Jessica has travelled extensively, worked with clients all over the world, and recently moved with her family to Bath.
Sam Waples
Sam is a highly experienced specialist in data analysis and geographic information science with experience of working in the academic, private and public sectors. He specialises in spatial analysis, data modelling and visualisation techniques.
At The Good Economy, Sam is responsible for the data analysis underpinning all TGE’s impact assessment and reporting work. He has led the portfolio and business-level data analysis for TGE’s private equity and SME investor clients, focused on understanding to what extent investment supports sustainable business growth and job creation that benefit disadvantaged areas both in the UK and globally. Sam also leads the innovative technical work behind TGE’s Good Jobs Rating.
Sam began collaborating with Mark Hepworth on a range of economic development projects in 2007 as part of Geoeconomics and the Centre for Applied Economic Geography, Birkbeck College London. His work included assessing the economic impact of FTSE100 companies and the geographic analysis for local economic development strategies.
Sam has undertaken social policy research at Birkbeck, the Cass Business School and the University of Leicester. He worked on the national evaluation of the Sure Start programme for the department of education and CCTV for the Home Office. He also worked with the Commission for Rural Communities (now part of Defra), developing geographical socio-economic small town and rural area typologies.
Sam has a BSc from the University of Edinburgh and a Masters in Geographical Information Science from the University of Nottingham.
Sam Monger
Sam played a leading role in delivering the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) UK Urban Futures Commission's report 'Unleashing the potential of the UK’s cities’ and wrote the Investment Playbook, designed as an introductory guide for local government on how to engage effectively with private finance in pursuit of place-based regeneration and social impact goals.
Prior to joining TGE, Sam worked for Grosvenor where he led financial analysis, research and strategy in the UK property business for several years, including playing a leading role in developing Grosvenor’s net zero and social impact strategies. He also led development of a sophisticated spatial modelling capability which used multiple datasets to understand drivers of value and risk across several real estate sectors from a place-based perspective. In addition, he led strategy development and implementation of Grosvenor Hart Homes, an innovative, impact-led social housing business.
Before that, Sam held senior advisory roles at PwC and IBM where he led teams advising on some of the largest and most complex public-private partnerships ever undertaken in the UK, including the DWP PRIME portfolio PFI transaction and securing a financing deal for Avon & Somerset Constabulary’s custody portfolio.
Andy Smith
Andy is an experienced project manager and impact measurement and management practitioner, specialising in social housing, real estate and impact investing. He also plays an operations management role managing and developing teams and business systems.
Andy manages many of the Impact Services we deliver for clients, particularly within the housing and real estate sector. He works collaboratively with clients to develop robust, practical impact measurement, management and reporting systems that help both prove and improve impact. Andy is actively involved in the development of TGE’s impact assessment methodologies drawing on international good practice and first-hand experience.
Andy helps build and manage collaborations with partners across the public, private and social sectors. He has led the development of a standard approach to ESG and Impact Reporting for Social and Affordable Housing working with a wide range of stakeholders, including housing associations, lenders and investors.
Andy joined The Good Economy in 2018 from Social Finance, a consulting firm focused on finding better ways to tackle social problems. He was project manager of Leaving Well, an innovative tech product enabling local authorities to better support young people leaving the care system. Prior to this, Andy spent six years at The Challenge, a charity set up to encourage social integration. Andy’s role was to scale up its National Citizen Service and lead on impact evaluation as well as the delivery of its apprenticeship programme Step Forward.
Andy completed the Teach First programme, spending two years as a maths teacher at an inner-city school in south east London.
Andy has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge.