Amit Bhatia is chief executive officer of GSG or The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (www.gsgii.org) since April 2017. View Amit Bhatia’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Amit has 9 jobs listed on their profile. These are some of the top recent news headlines on the state of capitalism. Amit received his Bachelor’s from Shri Ram College of Commerce, his Master’s from Delhi School of Economics with a Gold Medal and Cost Accounting from ICMAI. At the recent Milken Institute annual gathering in the US, big names CEOs, politicians and investment chiefs such as Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio worried about the rise in popularity of socialism among young people, and the likely related growth in inequality: “It’s not whether we should be capitalist or socialist. Working on billion dollar ‘outcomes’ funds in Latin America and Africa. Winners will be flown to Santiago to receive the honors from Sir Ronald Cohen, founding chair of the GSG. GSG will reimburse return travel and accommodation expenses up to an agreed amount for both category winners. Bhatia says it will redefine the social contract with governments and include elements such as mandatory impact reporting. Of this about $26trn is already in responsible investing, sustainable investing or impact investing. Since 2007, Aspire has trained over 65,000 students across 100+ institutions, 51 cities and 18 Indian states. We are aware that there will be enough vested interests that are going to stand up against this. View Amit Bhatia’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. 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Amit Bhatia was born in London in 1979. He's a familiar name around west London, but we take a look at how Bhatia has found himself in the hotseat at Loftus Road. He attended school in Dehli, India before spending a brief amount of time at Dulwich College in London, before returning to Dehli once more. The publications are left leaning. It’s a political issue.” And what about product? He's a familiar name for everyone associated with the Hoops, but we'll take a look at the man who will be leading QPR into an exciting new period in their history. But Bhatia believes there are shoots of hope. So the markets at large will be able to value impact in the wisdom of markets: “When markets learn to value that. It would allow the earnings per share on profits to be higher and lower compared with their impact. The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment. The company sold a 50% stake to a Japanese multinational conglomerate called Softbank at a $3billion value. Responsible Investor is published by Response Global Media Limited (Company No: 6123092); an independent UK publishing company. View Amit Bhatia’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. That can power a new social contract and then the whole economic system will work for the poor and the climate.” Bhatia acknowledges that the business lobby will be a big hurdle to these plans, “turning a ship is never easy. See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover Amit… GSG is an independent global steering group catalyzing impact investment and entrepreneurship to benefit people and the planet. For corporates it is the circular economy (economic system aimed at minimising waste) or demonstrating societal purpose. They've certainly led the club through a turbulent period, enjoying the highs of promotion, the lows of relegation and the ugly times of battling Financial Fair Play. Involving former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Bhatia says it is in the market with an investment memorandum: “We want to demonstrate that you can unlock capital at scale. Amit has 3 jobs listed on their profile. Amit quit a successful corporate career in 2007 to serve the social sector. The GSG was established in 2015 following the work of the Social Impact Investment Taskforce established under the UK’s presidency of the G8. GSG is an independent global steering group catalyzing impact investment and entrepreneurship to benefit people and the planet. Bhatia married Vanisha Mittal in 2004, the only daughter of billionaire steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal. You are here because you are logging into the AGLN HUB for the first time. Bhatia's family are co-owners of Air Asia-India with Ratan Tata and a certainly Mr Tony Fernandes. This award is for asset owners directing their capital to impact, including pension funds, philanthropies, high net-worth individuals, family offices, corporations, banks, governments, and, development-finance institutions. He has been a consistent presence around the club over recent years, and has now been named as chairman with immediate effect after Tony Fernandes and Ruben Gnanalingam's decision to step down as co-chairmen. He says this will continue with the new G7 under the presidency of France – a country that is already considered a leader in the area of responsible and sustainable investment. Impact asset manager of the year He then became the chairman of Hope Construction Materials, the UK's largest independent supplier of concrete, celement, aggregate and asphalt. “There is about $200trn in assets under management. 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These are big ideas – maybe even unrealistic.

Prior will take over from Amit Bhatia, GSG’s current chief executive, in May. Those things are much needed and it will be a great service to this movement by all our NABs,” he says. These issues keeping the global elite awake at night have been worrying the individuals driving the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) for decades.

Prior to GSG, Bhatia was CEO of WNS Knowledge Services, India’s first outsourcing company to list on NYSE with a $1bn IPO. This award is for impact fund managers and other banks, dealmakers or intermediaries placing or allocating impact capital. Sign up for a free, no-strings trial to Responsible Investor. Still built on the principles of free-market capitalism, Bhatia envisages a world where “impact will become a variable in all business decisions, investment decisions, policy decisions or consumption decisions”. It is already in talks with Japan, who is president of this year’s G20. Some high-profile politicians are moving in this direction, take US Presidential challenger Senator Elizabeth Warren with her Accountable Capitalism Act.

Bhatia resigned from QPR's board in 2011 after growing frustrated over his failed attempts to buy the club in it's entirety, but he returned to his role a few months later.

He explains: “It will allow a co-efficient approach so annuallyall corporations alongside their regular financial accounts, balance sheet, profit and loss, publish their ‘impact-weighted accounts’. For the RI Team browse the Team page.

With Fernandes saying it's a good time for a change, QPR moved quickly to name Amit Bhatia as the new club chairman.

It means an average household buys products made by a B-Corp (businesses with verified social and environmental standards), explains Bhatia. It highlights that the social contract has broken down.” Prior to GSG, Bhatia was CEO of WNS Knowledge Services, India’s first outsourcing company to list on NYSE with a $1bn IPO. Fast-forward to today and the ‘Gilets Jaunes’ are marking their sixth month of protesting in France, and generally global unease is rising. If you are still having issues logging in or do not have access to the email that we use to contact you, please email Kula Manobah at kula.manobah@aspeninstitute.org to have your password manually reset and sent to you. He is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. The FT and the Los Angeles Times are reporting anxiety about a neoliberal future. Private equity pioneer Sir Ronald Cohen, who chairs the GSG, has warned for years that inequality leads to social unrest and that impact investment could help prevent this. Bhatia charts GSG’s advocacy to the G20 last year, where impact investment was mentioned for the first time in a document adopted by all heads of states. He was a founder of McKinsey’s Knowledge Centre, before pursuing a career in the impact sector. It highlights that the social contract has broken down.”

This growth and that of the wider market signals momentum behind impact investment, says Bhatia. He then studied Economics and Management at Cornell University, New York - a private and statutory Ivy League research University. He was CEO of WNS Knowledge Services, India’s first outsourcing company to list on NYSE with a $1 billion IPO, Country Manager - India for FreeMarkets Inc., an online auction pioneer in B2B procurement, and most notably, Founder of McKinsey Knowledge Center, the consulting firm’s global research center. In 2007, Bhatia bought a stake in Queens Park Rangers Football Club and has served as the club's vice-chairman for the majority of time since. We call it the ‘impact economy’.