Georgia Levenson Keohane

Georgia Levenson Keohane

CEO
Soros Economic Development Fund

Georgia Levenson Keohane is a seasoned chief executive, business and civic leader with twenty-five years of experience at the intersection of the capital markets, innovative philanthropy, and public policy. A lifelong New Yorker, she is the CEO of the Soros Economic Development Fund, the economic development and impact investing arm of the Open Society Foundations. Previously, she served as President of the NYC Impact Partnership, President of the Navab Capital Partners Foundation and head of the firm's Sustainable Investment practice, and Executive Director of the Pershing Square Foundation. A former McKinsey consultant, Keohane has advised CEOs, boards, management teams, and institutional, corporate, and philanthropic investors on strategy, operations, sustainability, public private partnerships, and inclusive growth. She is also an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, where she hosts the Capital for Good podcast. Keohane speaks and writes regularly on social and economic policy, investment, and the roles of business and philanthropy in society, and is the author of two award winning books, Capital and the Common Good: How Innovative Finance is Tackling the World's Most Urgent Problems (2016) and Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation Across the Nonprofit, Private and Public Sectors (2013). Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Time, and the Harvard Business Review, among other publications. Keohane serves on several corporate and nonprofit boards, and holds a BA from Yale University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an MSc from London School of Economics, where she was a Fulbright Scholar.