Forbes features an interview with Randall Kempner, Executive Director of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs. In this role, Randall oversees the implementation of ANDE's extensive program and policy agenda, including efforts to develop select standardized IRIS social and environmental metrics for impact investments in emerging market small and growing businesses, and training seminars on supporting and investing in emerging-market entrepreneurs.

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"The broader impact investment sector is beginning to mature. We've got a commonly accepted set of standards for measuring the social, environmental and financial results of impact investments (the Impact Reporting Investment Standards (IRIS) initiative); a continual stream of reports that aim to measure the present and future size of the industry, and a significant amount of activity focused on building marketplaces and exchanges to support investments in SGBs [small and growing businesses]."

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