Belden Daniels
Belden Hull Daniels, founder of Economic Innovation International in 1960, is a pioneer in creating the triple bottom line social impact private equity industry that invests globally in poor communities.
His work has created jobs and revitalization for those living in these communities, green renewable resource development, and high returns for investors. Daniels has created 125 social impact funds investing $490 billion in poor communities throughout the world. While building these funds, he has traveled all the world’s continents overland on last class busses and the world’s longest rivers– the Amazon, the Nile, the Ganges and the Irrawaddy in Myanmar. The Mississippi is next in 2021. Daniels was a Fulbright Scholar in India in 1959 and a Penfield Traveling Fellow in Asia in 1960 with his wife, Pamela. He taught community development finance at Harvard from 1974 to 1981, and at MIT from 1981 to 1983.