Symbio Impact is a sustainable financing and strategy consultancy. We work with impact-driven leaders to fund solutions to global challenges.
Our clients and partners include major international NGOs, OECD donors and private sector impact investors.
About
Symbio Impact Ltd was co-founded by Camille Wallen and Chris Loughran in 2021. They bring over thirty years of UK and international experience spanning strategy, operational programme delivery, development finance, policy and public affairs.
Their knowledge, skills and networks make them perfectly placed to support clients seeking new opportunities for impact investment, and impact providers seeking to diversify their strategy and funding base.
Symbio Impact works with clients who are committed to finding new ways to address the global challenges of today and tomorrow, from public health and the climate emergency, to landmine clearance and the impact of conflict.
We are called Symbio because we believe that truly equitable, green and sustainable impact requires new partnerships and approaches between the private sector, third sector and governments.
Team
Camille Wallen
Camille’s experience is in senior leadership, developing and delivering complex organisational strategy and devising successful resource-mobilisation strategies. She has lived and worked across Europe, South and South East Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Camille specialises in international development policy, development finance and impact monitoring and evaluation. Her most recent role was Director of Strategy of The HALO Trust, where she oversaw a 50% increase in organisational turnover to almost $120m. She has pioneered the exploration of innovative finance for the landmine clearance sector and is part of the Humanitarian Finance Forum.
Camille is an accomplished public speaker and is also fluent in French and Spanish. She holds a Bachelor Degree from the University of Bath, as well as a Masters from Bath in International Development Studies.
Chris Loughran
Chris’s background is in senior leadership, operations and devising and delivering strategies to influence political policy and donor decision-making at the highest levels. He has lived and worked in the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
He specialises in international development and foreign policy and is an accomplished spokesperson, representing multiple organisations at the UN in New York and Geneva. Chris has led policy and influence for leading British NGO The HALO Trust, directed multi-million dollar conflict recovery programmes overseas and worked in the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall.
Chris is Vice-Chair of Platfform, Wales’s leading mental health charity, and a Director of the Association of British Orchestras. He holds a First Class BA from Oxford and a MSc in Conflict and Development Studies from the University of London. He is an Honorary Fellow at Manchester University.
Symbio Impact provides services in the following areas:
Sustainable Finance
We support charities and international organisations to integrate alternative finance into their strategies and business models.
Impact Investment
We work with governments, companies, investors and philanthropists to enhance their impact strategies and forge partnerships with organisations that share their aims.
Strategy Development
Drawing on our experience of the charitable and government donor sector, we support clients to integrate alternative forms of finance into resource mobilisation strategies.
Public Affairs
We draw on our networks and extensive experience of influence in the UK, at the UN and internationally to build support, profile and achieve change.