Our team

Paul brings a unique mix of private sector, government and NGO experience to this initiative. He started his career as a corporate lawyer with international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills providing advice on capital raising, M&A and private equity transactions. He co-founded wishlist.com.au, one of Australia’s first e-commerce companies, and has helped establish, fund and manage a number of other international and Australian start-ups across multiple sectors.

Paul has served as a senior advisor to two Australian Prime Ministers; was Deputy CEO of World Vision Australia and, for the last nine years, served as CEO of Save the Children Australia. He led the creation of and is a founding director of Save the Children Australia’s impact investment fund. He has degrees in economics and law with honours from Monash University, a graduate diploma in applied finance and a masters in international relations from Deakin University.

Leonardo serves as the Head of Impact Investing Europe where he oversees the European Impact Fund. He has over 15 years of private markets investment management experience gathered at investment banks, family offices and wealth management groups across multiple countries in Europe, United Kingdom and the United States. Leonardo has solid impact investing, measurement and management expertise and is a former impact investing strategist at the UBS Sustainable & Impact Investing team, where he implemented and managed innovative impact investing strategies, sourced and measured impact investments. He has extensive cross-border experience in mature and emerging markets, including Brazil and Sub-Saharan Africa and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Florida International University, a Masters in Finance from the Rotterdam School of Management, a CFA in ESG Investing and an Impact Measurement Degree from Oxford University.

Andy is the Impact Investing Manager for Save the Children Global Ventures. He is a certified Responsible Investment professional with a track record for successfully helping shape clients’ futures for long-term value realisation. He has a diverse work history, including communications, business development, and advising UHNW individuals and family offices. Andy is an experienced program manager, working with responsible and impact investment frameworks (PRI, GRI, IMP, TCFD, SDG alignment), project management, and communications.

Emanuela works as Innovative Finance Advisor across Save the Children Italy and Save the Children Global Ventures. She has extensive experience in partnership brokering, business development, philanthropy and sustainability. For 15 years, she has led and developed strategic alliances with the business sector and high net worth individuals, supervised high performing teams and, in her former role, increased the income by 117% in four years. In her present position, she is in charge of the adoption and execution of innovative finance mechanisms and advises donors, philanthropists, corporates and foundations on how to move beyond the traditional grants to a more innovative and sophisticated approach that leverages capital and maximises social outcomes. She likes to consider herself as a market builder working at the intersection of social impact and finance.

Amanda serves as COO of Save the Children Global Ventures where she oversees operations and finance. For more than seven years she was COO at Malala Fund, the girls’ education initiative founded by Pakistani activist and Nobel Laureate, Malala Yousafzai, leading the organisation through its early start-up period into a global team with activities in 12 countries. Prior to this, Amanda was a manager at The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, a $50 million investment portfolio focused on sustainable economic development following Haiti’s 2010 earthquake. She holds a Master of Public Policy from George Mason University and resides in Washington, D.C.

Aadit has extensive experience of working in innovative finance, impact investing, entrepreneurship and financial diligence. He started his career as an audit professional with Deloitte and worked on landmark investment banking deals in infrastructure, healthcare and financial sectors at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch. He co-founded Altflo, India’s first portfolio intelligence platform for private companies. In his latest stint at KOIS, he led the transaction diligence for their impact investments in Asia and Europe and worked on the design and placement of results-based financing instruments. Aadit is a Post-Graduate in Management from IIM, Bangalore and a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Armando is an Executive Director, working across Save the Children Global Ventures and the Global Innovation Centre of Excellence. He brings a unique mix of investing, strategy, and impact measurement skills. Before joining Save the Children, he empowered leaders at major NGOs to use data and experimentation for better decision-making. At the start of his career, he was an Investment Banker on Wall Street and an Investment Analyst at the International Finance Corporation, working across Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Sub-Saharan Africa. He has an MBA from Berkeley and an economics degree from Stanford University.

Gwil is Innovation Lead, working across Save the Children Global Ventures, the Global Innovation Centre of Excellence and Save the Children UK’s, Innovation Bubble. He has over 15 years’ experience working at senior levels in roles across innovation, strategy, and finance, including 7 years working in humanitarian and development contexts within various countries, including Lebanon, Kenya and Tanzania. Gwil has led several transformation projects, in different sectors, including within the UK’s largest police service, London’s Metropolitan Police Service. Gwil holds an MBA from Cranfield University, UK and a History and Politics degree from University of Southampton.

From working with individuals in their personal and health pursuits in her own business ‘Get Out and Live’ to managing the operations and logistics for groups on the Kokoda Track and throughout Papua New Guinea, Fiona has worked in diverse organisations. Her extensive experience in managing people and international cultures has optimised organisational performance and business outcomes. Fiona’s passion for helping improve the lives of others has seen her volunteering with ‘No Roads Foundation’ and ‘Children First Foundation’ by providing guardianship, training, support and collaborating between government and non-government agencies.

Annika has extensive experience of working on results based finance, social impact bonds, social enterprises, structuring, social and commercial tax reliefs in the UK, corporate governance and UK microfinance. In her 20+ years of experience, she has raised impact capital for collective investment schemes and provided tailored support to social purpose organisations as well as helped them raise repayable capital. Annika Tverin is Head of Impact and Investments at Save the Children United Kingdom. Prior to joining Save the Children Annika worked for Social Finance Ltd and the National Lottery Community Fund. Annika also worked for over a decade for Credit Suisse, ABN Amro and Morgan Stanley and as a management consultant for LEK Consulting. Annika holds an MBA from INSEAD, France, and a M.A. from The Fletcher School, Tufts University, USA.

Julianne first joined the Save the Children Australia in May 2021 as Legal Counsel, Impact Investment Fund and Social Enterprises. In 2022 she moved into the role as Head of Impact Investing. Julianne has more than 20 years’ legal and commercial experience, including advising on new commercial ventures, investment opportunities, acquisitions and divestments. Julianne spent 15+ years at Macquarie Group where she led a team as General Counsel and Global Head of Legal & Tax for Corporate Asset Finance. For the past 4 years Julianne has focused on generating finance for social impact. She was General Counsel at The Fred Hollows Foundation prior to joining Save the Children Australia.