Microfinance Focus, January 11, 2012: Americas Society and Council of the Americas will launch the Fall 2011 issue of Americas Quarterly, Impact Investing: Profit Meets Purpose on Thursday, January 19, 2012.

This event will include a panel discussion on the several angles of impact investing including the ways in which private, for-profit investment capital can become a force for social development and social inclusion, addressing such difficulties as public health challenges, climate change and urbanization, and the sustainable and profitable business models that already exist, and which remain to be developed.

Elizabeth Littlefield, President and Chief Executive Officer, Overseas Private Investment Corporation will be a keynote speaker during the event. Other speakers include Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO, Nonprofit Finance Fund, Margot Brandenburg, Associate Director, Rockefeller Foundation, Liam Brody, Senior Vice President of Business Development and Corporate Relations, Root Capital and Luiz Ros, Manager for the Opportunities for the Majority, Inter-American Development Bank

Christopher Sabatini, Editor-in-Chief, Americas Quarterly; Senior Director of Policy, Americas Society and Council of the Americas will moderate the discussion. The event will also be webcast.