Charlotte O’Leary
Charlotte O’Leary
CEO
Investors for Purpose
As CEO and an executive director of Investors for Purpose, Charlotte oversees the running of the business, develops the growth and innovation strategy and looks for opportunities to build partnerships to achieve their mission. She also co-leads the training service for asset owners and their advisers.
Charlotte sits on the pension’s expert group for the Global Steering Group for Impact
Investing and is a member of the Pensions Equity Group. Recently, she joined the think tank for the Global Climate Innovation Coalition. Charlotte also leads our Systems Governance Change Ecosystem Theme, as well as policy and advocacy work on fiduciary duty reform, better business and ecocide.
She has over 15 years of experience in asset management, starting in fund analysis and
progressing through to institutional business development, having worked for some well-
known institutions, including Jupiter, Pictet and Cambridge Associates.
Through these roles, Charlotte has built a knowledge and passion for sustainable investing. She has
demonstrated this in co-authoring a paper with the Society for Pension Professionals on social impact investing and speaking on topics such as fee and service transparency at PLSA and Transparency Taskforce events. She worked in partnership with the Impact Investing Institute to develop the Impact Investing Principles for Pensions.
