Lauren Booker Allen
Partner & Head of Impact Advisory, Jordan Park
Lauren Booker Allen leads the impact advisory practice at Jordan Park, which provides investment management and financial advice to a distinct community of individuals, families, and institutions. Prior to Jordan Park, Lauren was Senior Manager of Impact Investing at Omidyar Network, where she managed investments, strategic partnerships, and thought leadership initiatives to drive the firm’s impact investing and philanthropy industry development efforts globally, often advising HNWIs, family offices, foundations, entrepreneurs, and asset managers. Previously, Lauren worked at Goldman Sachs in the healthcare investment banking, global compliance, and training and communications groups. Lauren serves on the Boards of Directors for ImpactAssets, BlueMark and The Philanthropy Workshop (TPW), is the Vice Chair of the Jackie Robinson Foundation (JRF) Pacific Northwest Regional Scholar Advisory Committee and an alumni mentor of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT). Lauren earned her BA in American and Urban Studies from Yale University and MBA from Harvard Business School.
Lauren has been a featured speaker at more than 30 impact investing industry events hosted by organizations including GIIN, SOCAP, Giving Pledge, Confluence Philanthropy, Tideline, PYMWYMIC, Social Finance Forum, Opal, High Water Women, Big Path Capital, Economic International Forum of the Americas, Change Catalyst, Google Tech & Inclusion, Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, Harvard and Independent Sector.