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Designing Fit for Purpose Capital

There has been a sustained increase in gender finance, with a proliferation of case studies, strategies, policies, tools, and frameworks. Yet progress is not uniform. In this session, delegates will reassess their understanding of the problems that gender-smart capital is aiming to solve, and start to co-create impactful and fit-for-purpose finance for female and diverse founders and fund managers.

This session is focused on private markets across equity, debt, blended finance and other innovative mechanisms. It has a thematic/sectoral lens across agriculture, care economy, energy and infrastructure, water and sanitation, and financial inclusion.

Facilitators

2022 Summit Speakers
Chintal Barot
Chintal Barot

Chintal is the founder of CoSustain Consulting, and focuses on climate and gender-smart investing in emerging markets. She facilitates multi-stakeholder processes, workshops and delivers training on climate and gender-smart investing to investors and investee companies. She is a strategic advisor to the 2X Collaborative's Investment Officer and Climate and Gender Working Groups, and a Sector Advisor at the Said Business School at the University of Oxford, where she mentors students.

Raya Papp
Raya Papp

Raya Papp is Founding Partner at SAGANA, a global impact investing and advisory firm where she focuses on Healthcare and Gender-Smart Investments. Raya also advises PE/VC funds in integrating a gender lens across their firm, investment processes and portfolio companies. She co-authored several reports in the sector including "Gender Lens Investing in Waste Management and Recycling" and “Gender Lens Investing Landscape - Asia”.

Conversation Starters

  • Jessica Espinoza - CEO, 2X Collaborative

  • Borja Garcia Fernandez - Head of Structuring and Latin America Lead, Citi Social Finance

  • Sanghamitra Karra - Managing Director and Head of EMEA Multicultural Innovation Lab, Morgan Stanley

Earlier Event: October 18
Future-Proofing Climate & Gender-Smart Investment Strategies (Option 1)
Later Event: October 18
Scaling Gender and Diversity for Asset Managers and Allocators