Dr Shamil Chandaria is the founder and a partner at managed futures hedge fund firm Amplitude Capital, as well as holding a number of non-executive roles at finance and technology firms. But it was a £2.5m investment in the CAF Social Impact Fund that led the Charities Aid Foundation to label him “the UK’s largest individual social investor” last summer.

Before becoming an entrepreneur and investor, Chandaria was managing director at DB Investor, running a €25bn portfolio of proprietary equity holdings. He made his first significant charitable donation in 2005 helping to set up the Institute of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, where he had completed a masters degree in philosophy.