Karim Harji

Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

MA (Public Administration) and PhD (Philosophy)

Karim Harji works with people and organizations to strengthen how they finance, measure, and improve their social impact. At the University of Oxford, he leads the Impact Measurement Programme at Saïd Business School, enabling leaders to navigate the complexity of measuring and managing social impact, and teach in executive programmes on impact investing and innovative finance.

At Impact Frontiers and at the Innovative Finance Initiative, he designs knowledge initiatives and learning programmes across multiple regions on fundamental frameworks, innovative models, and emerging practices for investors and practitioners.

As an independent advisor at Evalysis, he helps organizations design strategies and structures for deploying impact investments and philanthropy, develop credible approaches to describe and evaluate social impact, and enhance organizational capabilities and learning.

His work is informed by two decades of global experience across sectors, regions, and organization types; board and advisory roles spanning nonprofit, investment, and field-building organizations; and a PhD from the University of Oxford.