Deborah Frieze is an author, entrepreneur and professor with a focus on community-based investing, blended finance and economic democracy.
She currently serves as Senior Economic Advisor and Board Member of Principles for Peace, a Geneva-based organization that embodies a new approach to peace and security at the global, regional and local level. Through her work at P4P, she co-founded the Palestinian Impact Initiative, an impact investing fund that seeks to be a source of economic stabilization and recovery in the West Bank.
Deborah is founder of the Boston Impact Initiative, an impact investing fund working to close the racial wealth divide in New England and co-founder of Unlock Ownership, a pooled multi-donor impact investing fund focused on building the ownership economy. She has taught Community-Based Investing around the world, including at Tufts University, where she helped design and launch a certificate program in Impact and Sustainable Investing. Ms. Frieze is co-author (with Margaret Wheatley) of Walk Out Walk On, an award-winning book that profiles pioneering leaders building resilient communities. She is also founder of the Old Oak Dojo, an urban learning center in Boston, MA.