Arthur R. Wood - World Sanitation

Arthur Wood is an Englishman and former banker married to a Norwegian, educated at the London School of Economics, SDA Bocconi, Italy, and HEC in France. As a Leadership Group Member and the former Global Head of Social Financial Services of Ashoka, based in Washington DC and then London, Wood’s core mission was and remains to explore and facilitate innovation in philanthropy funding strategies. In this context he has been at the forefront of creating and implementing new social financial models with cutting edge global and US social entrepreneurs, as well as engaging a number of major international financial institutions to enter this space in Canada, Switzerland, US, Singapore and the UK. Wood is one of the co-creators of the new Low Profit Limited Liability (L³C) in the US and the proposed SELLP in the UK; he is on the forefront of the global debate on new legal and tax structures required in philanthropy.

Arthur Wood is the current Chairman of the World Sanitation Financing Facility (WSFF), a role that recently moved him to Geneva. He is also a founding partner of Total Impact Advisers, a member of the World Economic Forum Advisory Group on Social and Philanthropic Investing, Board Member of the Big Issue Invest in the UK, and sits on the advisory board of a number of social sector entities in multiple international locations. He publishes widely in the business press on social financing issues and is a regular invited speaker at global academic institutions including Geneva, St. Gallen, Oxford, Indian School of Business, Darden, and Dartmouth.