Who we are

Meet our editorial team

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  Paula Garrido

  I joined Impact Investor as editor in January 2022.
  I started my career in journalism in 1999 with Investment & Pensions Europe (IPE), and later joined the Financial Times group. In 2004, I was recruited by F&C Investments to lead communications for the firm’s institutional business, with a special focus on promoting their ESG offering. Later, I joined impact investor Bridges Fund Management as head of communications. After that, I worked as a freelance writer and consultant.

  I studied History at the University of Santiago de Compostela, my home town in Spain, and Journalism in London, where I still live.

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  Maha Khan Phillips

  I started my career in financial journalism in 1999, and joined Impact Investor as co-editor in October 2023. I have held a number of different editorial roles in between, working for Risk Magazine, Financial News and Global Investor, before launching and editing Islamic Investor and freelancing for publications like Investments & Pensions Europe (IPE). For a number of years, I also edited Professional Investor for the CFA Society of the UK. I wear another hat as a novelist, and have written four novels to date. They are all set in Pakistan, where I grew up. I have a keen interest in social justice and in global health issues, and while I am London-based, I still spend a lot of my time in Pakistan.

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  Ian Lewis

  I’m a London-based journalist with three decades of experience covering social and economic development and business, mainly in Africa and Asia, as well as reporting on the energy transition.
  I started out at Reuters, before turning freelance and basing myself in the Middle East and Spain for several years. I have written for a variety of publications, including the Economic Intelligence Unit, African Business and Euromoney titles. I have also written reports on development themes for IFIs, commercial banks, consultancies, and NGOs.
  My work has included on-the-ground research into the impact of NGO funding of small businesses and agricultural programmes, highlighting the importance to impact investors of getting the biggest bang possible for their buck.

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  Karolina Adamkiewicz

  I am a journalist and communications professional passionate about raising awareness of solutions to the nature and climate crisis.
  I started my career at the FT Group 20 years ago, writing for retail investment trade Financial Advisor before moving into PR and internal communications where I worked across the finance, B2B electric product distribution and tech and leisure sectors.
  For the past couple of years, I have returned back to where I started, but this time writing about the innovations that are helping to accelerate the energy transition and more recently, as a member of the Impact Investment team, about the investments that are driving sustainable social and environmental change.

  I have obtained the Certificate in ESG Investing from the CFA Institute and am currently studying for an MSc in Sustainable Development from Sussex University. I live in Hounslow, West London, where together with another volunteer, we have relaunched the local Friends of the Earth group.

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  Krystle Higgins

  Krystle is IPE’s London-based senior reporter and splits her time reporting between IPE and its sister publication Impact Investor.
  Before joining IPE Krystle worked as a financial journalist covering investment trends, and ESG. She was highly commended at the Headline Money Awards for Rising Star of the Year (B2B financial journalism).

  She previously worked as a regional breaking news reporter for a daily newspaper.

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