I had a very special guest on the podcast this week. Paul Brest, has come all the way from Stanford University in California. He was previously the Dean of Stanford Law School, specialising in constitutional law, he then moved over to head up the Hewlett Foundation where he focussed on philanthropy and began to explore whether investors could contribute to social impact.

After 12 years there he returned to academia, to Stanford, where he remains as Professor Emeritus.

He’s in Sydney to talk and share ideas about all things philanthropy. He’s here as a guest of Perpetual Investments, and I was lucky enough to get some time to ask some questions of my own.

It was Paul’s writing in the Stanford Social Innovation Review that I first came across his work. His definitions and dissection of impact investing helped to strike a path for the sector’s development. And he continues to fuel debate with his unapologetic views on what it means to have genuine, enduring impact.

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