
Putting people at the centre of the green transition
The window to avert the consequences of climate change is shrinking fast. Despite the unprecedented pace of low-emission technology development, investment allocation and policy implement...
Global Head of Client Impact for Financial Institutions and Co - Head of Defense Finance. As a core member of Boston Consulting Group's Financial Institutions and Public Sector practices, Douglas Beal leads the firm's work helping financial institutions build profitable, resilient and secure businesses that generate positive socioeconomic and environmental outcomes including through defense and resilience financing. His clients include global banks, asset managers and asset owners, wealth managers, private equity firms, and Security and Defense Financial Institutions (SDFIs).
Doug has extensive experience convening stakeholders across the public and private sectors to develop scalable blended finance solutions that align different risk, return, and impact objectives. He works with family offices, private banks and their clients to enable private capital participation in catlytic finance. He is also currently focusing on enabling greater private-sector participation in resilience, security, and defense finance.
Doug is a co-creator of BCG’s Total Societal Impact (TSI) approach and the firm’s Sustainable Economic Development Assessment (SEDA), a statistical benchmarking tool used by governments to improve wellbeing beyond GDP growth. TSI and SEDA have been featured in leading international publications including The Economist and the Financial Times.
He was previously the global leader of BCG’s economic development topic area, and advised government leaders on economic and institutional strategies. He also held regional leadership roles within BCG’s Financial Institutions practice across Asia Pacific and the Middle East. He serves on the advisory board of the Cornell Center for Global Sustainable Enterprise.
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Vietnam's success over the past two decades is undeniable. The country has moved from a largely agrarian economy to one powered by manufacturing. Food is more plentiful, health care more ...




