The impact investing trailblazer served as a senior policy advisor in the Clinton administration and as CEO of Calvert Impact Capital, where she championed community development and the Women Investing in Women initiative. She led an impact investing portfolio at Anthos and most recently launched Apollo Global Management’s impact strategy.

“We are deeply saddened by the passing of Lisa Hall, a beloved member of our team,” Joanna Reiss, a partner and co-head of impact at Apollo shared with ImpactAlpha. “She was a pioneer and leading light in the world of impact investing, and her expertise and wisdom were our ‘north star’ as we built our strategy. Her legacy will live on through her work and the many people she inspired through her life, at Apollo and across the impact community.” 

Tributes have poured in since Hall’s death from colon cancer on March 15. “She was one of the most inspiring, thoughtful and creative leaders,” Sonal Shah, who worked with Hall at the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University, wrote on LinkedIn. “Her remarkable career, spanning over three decades, was dedicated to uplifting communities through innovative investments, mentoring and public service.” 

“The world has lost a true visionary, a quiet force of change, and a woman who embodied the spirit of defiant optimism,” wrote Durreen Shahnaz. “Lisa was a giant in impact investing – one of the founding mothers,” shared Tideline’s Ben Thornley. “Her example and advice blessed me in immeasurable ways,” added The Investment Integration Project’s Monique Aiken.

Hall was a devoted mother to her daughter, Leah. Carolien de Bruin remembered that back in 2020, Hall shared her story of losing both her husband Randy and her sister Cindy to cancer, “not to ask for sympathy, but to remind us to love one another and put aside our differences” (more on Legacy.com).