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Catherine Clark has worked for over 15 years to support and build entrepreneurial organizations and companies that achieve significant impact on deep social problems. At Columbia Business School, she teaches social entrepreneurship, founded and directs Columbia’s Research Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship (RISE) (www.riseproject.org), and serves as faculty advisor for the Global Social Venture Competition (www.socialvc.net).

Previously, Ms. Clark was Managing Director of the Flatiron Future Fund, a social venture capital fund, and President of the Flatiron Foundation, both incubated by Flatiron Partners, a JP Morgan Partners affiliate. Before that, she was Vice President of the Markle Foundation in New York. She began her career in Washington, DC, where she worked as part of The Aspen Institute’s Communications and Society Program and on development in Pakistan for the US Agency for International Development.

Ms. Clark is Acting Chair of Investors’ Circle, a national membership organization of social investors, and Advisory Board Chair of Commons Capital, LP, a venture fund investing in health, clean energy, the environment and education. Ms. Clark holds a BA from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

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