GC2025 Insights: How Policies & Incentives Build Impact Economies

In the following episodes, we bring you insights from this year’s AVPN Global Conference (“GC2025”), held September 9-11 in Hong Kong. There will be episodes highlighting thought leadership from prominent speakers. This includes snippets from speeches and special features of our speakers on Impact Investing Day (September 10).

In this episode, we feature Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen, CEO of GSG Impact, a global network of national partners advancing the infrastructure, incentives, and policy frameworks needed to build impact economies. With 43 national partners across 48 countries and more than half located in emerging markets, GSG Impact is helping countries embed impact into policy, business practice, and investment decision-making.

Elizabeth’s past experience in development finance spans the Inter-American Development Bank, where she led impact investing portfolios, in the United Nations Development Programme, leading the SDG Impact initiative, and the US International Development Finance Corporation, leading policy. She joined GSG Impact as CEO in 2024, bringing deep expertise in blended finance and creating policy frameworks to unlock institutional capital for impact investments.

From her sharing, she emphasises how key policy wins can unlock vast amounts of impact capital.

Elizabeth reflects on:

• How can policy and regulatory reforms unlock domestic capital - including pensions, insurers, and sovereign wealth - for impact?
• What incentive structures, disclosure standards, and enabling conditions are needed to direct more of Asia’s domestic assets toward impact?
• How can strong local leadership, backed by global-to-local learning, help countries build stronger impact economies and more effective national impact investing organisations?