Aunnie Patton Power

She is an Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics’ Marshall Institute, an Impact Fellow at The ImPact and the Academic Director for the BEAM Network. 

Aunnie works with funders globally to design innovative financing instruments. She sits on the investment committees of Sanlam Investments and Nyala Venture, and also serves on the social and ethics board committee at JUMO. She founded the careers platform Impact Finance Pro and is a founding member of the Dazzle Angels, a female angel investing group. Her first book, Adventure Finance, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021 and she is working on her second.

A reformed M&A investment banker, Aunnie began her impact investing career in 2010 with Unitus Capital in Bangalore and has since worked with start-ups, intermediaries, funds, family offices, foundations, corporates and governments across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Aunnie's work has been published throughout the world, including by the Oxford University Press, the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), the World Economic Forum, Impact Investing Policy Collaboration and as Massive Open Online Courses on Coursera and GetSmarter. At Saïd Business School, Aunnie convenes the Oxford Impact Finance Innovations and the African Venture Finance Programme annually.