Team Profile
Eliza Erikson is a veteran impact investor with over 20 years of experience across a range of asset classes – private and public debt and equities– and industries – education and edtech, financial services and fintech, housing, renewable energy and sustainable agriculture. She has worked across the U.S. and emerging markets in both investment and operating roles, including co-founding a global financial services company, MfX Solutions, whose board she chaired for 5 years. MfX Solutions is one of the first global platforms enabling the management of emerging market currency risk, which has facilitated more than $4 billion in financing across more than 45 currencies.
Eliza Erikson recently joined Brown Advisory, a global wealth and investment advisory firm managing $150 billion in assets from a range of private and institutional clients. Eliza will serve as a partner and head of impact advisory, leading the firm’s business, platform, and products in impact investing. Previously, Eliza served as a managing director and member of the investment leadership team of a large multi-generational family office where she led impact investing for all family clients, as well as a team and platform operating across asset classes, strategies and portfolios. Previously, Eliza was an investment partner at Omidyar Network, where she led the firm’s global strategy and investments in education technology, in addition to some global investments in financial inclusion and technology. She served on the firm’s investment committee and boards of portfolio companies LearnZillion, Geekie, VidaTec, and Blended.
Before joining Omidyar Network in fall 2011, Eliza was the chief lending and investment officer at Calvert Impact (previously Calvert Foundation), where she was responsible for the management and growth of the fund and its subsidiaries’ more than $300 million in assets under management.
Earlier in her career, Eliza worked with the Corporation for Enterprise Development and the U.S. Agency for International Development, providing management consulting and investment services to development finance institutions in the United States, Latin America, South Asia, and North Africa.
Eliza holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, where she graduated magna cum laude, and a masters’ degree in public policy, with concentrations in finance and program evaluation, from Harvard University.
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