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I would like to add you to my connections in LinedIn. I am having fun reading your recent paper on evaluating impact investing. Hopefully in due course we can debate. All the best - Peter Burgess

2nd Edward Jackson at Carleton University Ottawa, Canada AreaEducation Management Current Carleton Centre for Community Innovation, E. T. Jackson and Associates Ltd. Previous Carleton University, Community Economic Development Technical Assistance Program, World Bank-Carleton University International Program for Development Evaluation Education University of Toronto - Ontario Institute for Studies in Education 500+ connectionsConnectSend InMailMore options Contact Info Background Summary

Edward Jackson is a faculty member in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada, where he is cross-appointed to the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and the Institute of African Studies. He is also Senior Research Fellow at the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation. From 2007 to 2010, he served as Associate Dean (Research, Graduate Affairs and Faculty Development) in the Faculty of Public Affairs at Carleton University. In this role he chaired university committees on community engagement and partnership. Currently, he concentrates his teaching and research at Carleton on project management, program evaluation, local governance, regional development, social enterprise, social finance, community-university partnerships, and foreign-aid policy Dr. Jackson has advised a wide range of organizations, including AUCC, CLC, CIDA, IDRC, the McConnell Foundation, the Trillium Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, SSHRC and the World Bank. He has worked in every region of Canada and in 50 other countries around the world. The author or editor of numerous academic and professional publications, he is a frequent speaker at conferences. Dr. Jackson also serves as President of E. T. Jackson and Associates Ltd., an award-winning management consulting firm. A member of the McLeod Group, he is a frequent blogger with The Huffington Post Canada, Embassy Magazine and The Mark, and is also active on Twitter. Specialties:Higher education management, community-university engagement strategies, local economic development, social enterprise, social finance, local governance, program design, program evaluation, small business management, management consulting, and foreign-aid policy. Experience Senior Research Fellow Carleton Centre for Community Innovation July 2010 – Present (2 years 10 months)Ottawa The Centre is a leading source of action-oriented knowledge on impact investing and social finance, social enterprise, community economic development, Aboriginal development and governance, and community-university partnerships. I serve as Principal Investigator of Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement, a major, SSHRC-funded campus-community partnership project active in poverty reduction, community food security, community environmental sustainability, and violence against women. I also lead research projects involving social impact assessments of social enterprises and community-based organizations, and on strategies for leveraging the economic power of universities to create jobs and sustainable communities, with a focus on mobilizing the capital of universities to invest in affordable housing, urban revitalization and other community projects. I served as founding Director (1993-2003) and Chair (2004-2010) of the Centre. Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration Carleton University August 1993 – Present (19 years 9 months) The School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University is one of Canada's oldest and most prestigious graduate schools in public administration, offering a suite of Doctoral, Master's and Diploma programs with concentrations in Canadian public policy, environment and science policy, and international policy. My teaching is focused on program management, program evaluation, social enterprise, civil society and public policy, and higher education and society. I'm also involved in research and advisory projects and networks on university-community partnerships, social finance and impact investing, foreign-aid policy, gender and evaluation, and social impact assessment. I am cross-appointed to the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University. President E. T. Jackson and Associates Ltd. July 1982 – Present (30 years 10 months) E. T. Jackson and Associates is an Ottawa-based management consulting firm that provides planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation services to development interventions for the public good. For 30 years, the firm has provided high-quality professional services to international development agencies, governments and non-governmental organizations in 50 countries around the world, advising on more than $5 billion worth of investments. Countries of focus have included Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, the Eastern Caribbean, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Thailand and Vietnam. With a strong commitment to results-based management, stakeholder engagement and gender equality, Jackson and Associates specializes in impact investing, social enterprise, governance, education, regional development and civil-society management. Clients of the firm have included AWARD, CIDA, CLC, DFAIT, FASID, IDRC, IIDEA, IPAC and UNFPA. Since 2011, Jackson and Associates has also served as a monitoring and evaluation grantee of the Rockefeller Foundation, assessing programs in impact investing and digital employment. For its work on decentralization in northern Ghana, Jackson and Associates won the Export Development Canada Gender Achievement Award and was also nominated for the Ontario International Traders Award and the Ghana Millennium Excellence Award. For its micro-finance interventions in Bangladesh, the company received citations from the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and Canada's Foreign Minister, and won the Silver Prize for Best Documentary at the Houston Film Festival. Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Affairs), Faculty of Public Affairs Carleton University July 2007 – June 2010 (3 years) This role involved building research capacity across a Faculty comprising 11 academic units, nearly 200 faculty members, 7,000 students (including 1,000 graduate students) and 20 research centres. I chaired the Faculty Research Committee and numerous Faculty project groups. I also served as a member of the university-wide Committee of Associate Deans of Research and of the Graduate Studies Faculty Board, and chaired both the university-wide Initiative for Community-University Engagement and the senior management Working Group on Partnerships. Co-Founder and Principal Community Economic Development Technical Assistance Program 1997 – 2008 (11 years) A joint venture of the McConnell Foundation and Carleton University, the Community Economic Development Technical Assistance Program was a pan-Canadian grant-making initiative that funded more than 450 local initiatives, built a database of 600 technical assistance specialists, and provided conference and research support to Canada's CED movement. A member of many CED and social economy sector bodies, CEDTAP itself was financed by the Foundation, Bell Canada, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Royal Bank, Power Corporation, Western Economic Diversification and DEC Quebec. Co-Founder and Lead Instructor World Bank-Carleton University International Program for Development Evaluation April 2001 – September 2001 (6 months) This was the pilot year of IPDET, which, over the past ten years, has become the world's premier executive training program in development evaluation through a successful partnership between the World Bank and Carleton University. Skills & Expertise Most endorsed for... 80International... 53Program Evaluation 46Public Policy 32Policy Analysis 31Program Management 24Social Enterprise 22Higher Education 14Management Consulting 9Management 7Local Government Education University of Toronto - Ontario Institute for Studies in Education EdD, Adult Education and Community Development 1976 – 1981 Activities and Societies: Political Economy Working Group Participatory Research Project Additional Info Interests New social finance strategies and tools, models of community-university engagement and methods of citizen-directed evaluation Weight-training, golf, poetry, journalism, jazz, fusion Advice for Contacting Edward Be patient. I intend to respond to your contact, but it may take some time. Very best regards. Ted Jackson. Honors & Awards Top 20 Knowledge Mobilizers in Canada, Knowledge Mobilization Works, 2012 Karl Boudreault Award for Leadership in Evaluation, Canadian Evaluation Society, 2012 Visiting Lecturer, Evaluation Academy, University of Warsaw, 2009, 2011, 2012 Associated Faculty Member, Social Innovation Program, University of Waterloo, 2010- Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship, 2009 Contribution to Evaluation in Canada Award, Canadian Evaluation Society, 2007 Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Public Affairs, Carleton University, 2007 Lansdowne Scholar, University of Victoria, 2005 Export Development Canada Gender Equality Achievement Award, 2002 Who's Who in Evaluation, 2005 Canadian Who's Who, 1999- Organizations Association for Non-Profit and Social Economy Research Causeway Initiative for Social Finance Community-Based Research Canada Canadian Alliance for Community Service Learning The Knowledge Commons Canadian Evaluation Society Diamond Development Initiative-Canada Institute for Policy Alternatives, Ghana The McLeod Group (Foreign Policy Think Tank) ConnectionsShared (4) Arthur Wood1st Founding Partner Total Impact Advisors & Chair World Sanitation Financing Facility Prof. Swapan Garain1st Social Entrepreneur, Strategist, Professor, Mentor, CSR and Non-Profit Management Advisor, Social & Ethical Fund Manager Lance Lindblom1st Retired as President & CEO, Trustee, of The Nathan Cummings Foundation Adam Spence1st Manager, Special Projects at the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing PREVIOUSNEXT Groups American Evaluation Association Join Base of the Pyramid( BoP) Join Canadian Evaluation Society - Ontario Chapter Join Community & Corporate Social Responsibility (CCSR) Forum Join Community Engagement Join Devex - International Development Join Economic Development Professionals Join Engagement Scholarship Consortium Join European Evaluation Society (EES) Join Global development professionals Join Higher Education Management Join Higher Education Teaching and Learning Join HigherEdJobs Join IARSLCE Join Impact Entrepreneur Join Impact Investing Forum Join Inside Higher Ed -- The New Conversation Join L3C Connect Join M&E for Development Professionals Join Mission Markets Network Join MojaLink - Non Profit Network (nonprofit) Join Monitoring and Evaluation Professionals Join NESsT Supporters Join RealWorld Evaluation Join SROI Exchange Join Skoll World Forum Join Social Capital Markets Join Social Enterprise & Impact Investing Join Society for International Development (SID) Join Sustainability Learning Centre Join Sustainable Development Africa Join Sustainable International Development Join The Chronicle of Philanthropy Member The Invest Ottawa Network Join University Economic Development Association Join See less Following News Education Management 141,242 followers Follow Higher Education 178,985 followers Follow Management Consulting 504,048 followers Following Companies Hewlett-Packard Information Technology and Services Follow Carleton University Higher Education