About
Impact Zones
Purpose
Investment should create more than financial returns. It should create opportunity. Impact Zones works at the intersection of investment, place and economic development. We help governments, economic zones and investors turn competitive advantages into investment, enterprise and sustainable economic growth.
What we do
We advise on foreign direct investment, economic zones, investment destinations, cross border trade and supply chains, from strategy and institutional design through investment attraction and implementation.
Our approach
Commercially grounded
strategies have to work in real markets.
Investor led
we design from the perspective of the investors, industries and supply chains a location seeks to attract.
Implementation focused
strategy is only valuable when institutions can execute it.
Globally connected
we connect markets, capital, governments, industry and specialist expertise across borders.
Leadership
Zoë Harries
Founder & CEO
Zoë Harries is an international FDI and Special Economic Zone executive with more than 25 years of experience across Europe, Africa, the GCC and Asia Pacific. She has led investment attraction, economic zone development and investment destination mandates for governments, sovereign-backed developments and international organisations.
LinkedInGlobal Experience
GCC
Investment destination development, economic zone design and attraction programmes for sovereign-backed developments.
Europe
FDI strategy, institutional design and investment facilitation for governments and agencies.
Africa
Economic zone feasibility, operating models and investment attraction for governments and developers.
Asia Pacific
Cross-border trade, supply chains and destination competitiveness for investment agencies and zone authorities.