Profile

Ali El Idrissi is part of the J.P. Morgan Social Finance Group, a unit of the bank that was launched in 2007 to service the growing market for impact investments, meaning those investments intended to generate positive impact alongside financial return. Social Finance invests J.P. Morgan’s own capital in impact investment funds focused on sectors such as SMEs, healthcare and agriculture, with the objective of achieving a financial return and a positive, measureable impact for under-served communities. In addition to its investment activity, the Social Finance Group publishes market research and is now building out its product platform to respond to increasing demand from both institutional and individual clients.

Prior to joining Social Finance, Ali worked in Investment Banking Advisory at J.P. Morgan covering the Middle East and North Africa region, based in London and Dubai, with a specific focus on Sovereign Wealth Funds in the region. More recently, Ali was part of the Natural Resources Investment Banking Group, focusing on transactions in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Before joining J.P. Morgan, Ali worked for Procter & Gamble and for Foundation Zakoura Microfinance in Morocco, and for Merrill Lynch in New York.

Ali holds a Master of International Economics and Finance from Columbia University, a Master of International Affairs from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po Paris) and a BA in Philosophy from La Sorbonne University in Paris. Ali co-teaches a class on Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing at Sciences Po Paris, in the Master in Economics and Business.