Dr. Joy Anderson is a prominent leader at the intersection of finance and social change and has been instrumental in shaping the field of gender lens investing. She is founder and president of Criterion Institute, the leading think tank on using finance as a tool for social change, which demonstrates new possibilities through its groundbreaking research, innovative trainings, convenings, and multi-stakeholder engagement to uncover innovative pathways to action.
Read MoreHany Assaad co-founded and has been Chief Portfolio & Risk Officer of Avanz Capital since its establishment, and is the Managing Director of Avanz Capital Egypt, an Egyptian asset management company and a subsidiary of Avanz Capital, established to manage fund-of-funds and other specialist private capital funds in Egypt to invest in VC and PE funds targeting startups and SMEs as well as specialized climate funds.
Read MoreIbukun Awosika is an African entrepreneur, author, international leader, and a global culture shaper. She is the Chairman and Founder of The Chair Centre Group, a leading furniture and security systems provider in Nigeria. She is the founder of Ibukun Awosika Leadership Academy and also the founder of the Christian Missionary Fund, a faith-based organization spread across Nigeria to change lives.
Read MoreDolika Banda is an independent Non-executive Director at Harith Infrastructure Investment and a Global Ambassador for The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment. She is the former CEO of African Risk Capacity Insurance Ltd and has held Non-Executive Director positions at Ecobank Transnational and the UK Department for International Development’s Financial Sector Deepening Africa programme.
Read MoreChintal 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.
Read MoreSukhvir Basran established and leads the Hogan Lovells Global Sustainable Finance and Investment Group. Combining her substantial experience as a banking and finance lawyer, including in cross-border acquisition finance, Sukhvir advises and works with a range of corporates, banks, funds, direct lenders and sponsors on incorporating innovative financing and impact investment structures anchored in rigorous impact outcomes into mainstream transactions. She also advises clients on ESG strategies, policies, disclosure and reporting, ESG-related transactions and products as well as integration of ESG into investment processes and systems.
Read MoreSuzanne is founder of Catalyst at Large Ltd and is a globally-recognised expert on gender-smart investing. Her work has influenced hundreds of funds and institutional investors, and billions of dollars of capital to move with a gender lens.
Read MoreMarla Blow is the President and COO of the Skoll Foundation where she leads Skoll’s program work, grants, investments, and financial management, including operations, endowment, and portfolio partnerships. Previously, she was North America lead at the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, and before Mastercard, she was Founder and CEO of FS Card Inc., a subprime credit card venture (sold to strategic acquirer).
Read MoreCarey Bohjanen operates at the interface between finance, business and society to build more inclusive, equitable and sustainable economies. She drives transformational change, leveraging collective wisdom and untapped potential of people and capital. Carey connects leaders to purpose and passion to develop catalytic, forward-looking responses to our planet’s greatest challenges, particularly gender inequality and climate change.
Read MoreJen Braswell is Managing Director and Head of Impact for the Private Capital business at EQT, focusing on defining and rolling out best practice approaches to impact management, impact selection and impact measurement. Jen is also the founding Director of the 2X Collaborative and has had a long career in sustainability, economic development and impact investing having spent 7 years at British International Investment (formerly CDC Group plc), where she was a founder of the internal Impact Management Group and led advisory teams driving value creation through an Impact lens focusing on climate change, gender & diversity finance, job quality and skills.
Read MoreSandrine Dixson-Decleve is an international and European climate, energy, sustainable development, sustainable finance, complex systems thought leader. She is currently the Co-President of the Club of Rome and divides her time between lecturing, facilitating difficult conversations and advisory work. She currently Chairs the European Commission, Expert Group on Economic and Societal Impact of Research & Innovation (ESIR) and sits on the European Commission’s Sustainable Finance Platform.
Read MoreJessica Espinoza is CEO of the 2X Collaborative, a global industry for gender lens investing convening the entire spectrum of capital providers. She is also Chair of the 2X Challenge that has raised more than US$ 11 billion of gender lens investments since its launch at the G7 Summit in 2018. Jessica has a track record in originating, structuring and executing debt, mezzanine and equity deals in emerging and frontier markets with a strong focus on inclusive innovation. The latest innovation she is spearheading with 2X colleagues is 2X Ignite, a bold facility to unlock capital for gender-smart business at scale by backing female-led fund managers.
Read MoreDr. Kshama Fernandes is the Vice Chairperson of the Northern Arc Group and Executive Chairperson of Northern Arc Investment Managers. Northern Arc is a leading finance platform in India that connects underbanked institutions and businesses to capital markets investors. Kshama served as the Managing Director and CEO of Northern Arc Capital from 2012 to 2022.
Read MoreElias Habbar-Baylac is a Venture Fellow at Third Space, a Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Equity, Gender & Leadership, and an Entrepreneurial Finance Fellow at the Berkeley Haas School of Business. Elias is a gender finance and inclusive innovation professional, experienced as a strategist & investor in sustainable development & economic inclusion across direct deals & as LP, with a focus on opportunity, gender & diversity-lens investing, ESG, climate & sustainability, & financial services.
Read MoreSarah is the Responsible Investment Associate for Gender Equality at HESTA. HESTA is an Australian pension fund for workers in the health and community services sector, and more than 80% of its 950,000 members are women. Sarah leads HESTA’s gender equality investment initiatives and supports HESTA to further deepen its approach to gender lens investing. Sarah is passionate about understanding power dynamics and the intersections between social justice issues and strives to bring intersectional analysis to her work.
Read MoreShalaka Joshi is the Gender Lead, South Asia for the International Finance Corporation (IFC)- the private sector focused arm of the World Bank- where she works on gender in the private sector. Shalaka has over 18 years of global leadership experience in early-stage investing, social venture, financial inclusion, entrepreneurship, livelihoods and market-based solutions to poverty in emerging markets, especially in Asia.
Read MoreSana is Head of Content at GenderSmart, where she curates and develops programming for the global gender finance community. She leads the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Working Group and a Care Economy initiative. A gender smart investing specialist and global changemaker, her career has spanned development finance, impact investing and equity research.
Read MoreHarvey is a Senior Advisor at FSG and an independent consultant, with over two decades of experience across venture philanthropy, strategy consulting and international development. Harvey has worked extensively with donors, investors and companies to develop and scale inclusive business models that benefit poor and marginalised populations.
Read MoreSophie is the Founder and CEO of Kite Insights, as well as the Editorial Partner of the Women’s Forum for the Economy & Society and Curator of the New York Times Climate Hub. Sophie has two decades of professional services and consulting experience and is a globally recognised thought leader on gender and climate action.
Read MoreAndrew Lee is Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing for UBS Global Wealth Management's Chief Investment Office. In this capacity, he and his team provide investment strategy, advice and thought leadership on integrating sustainability and impact into investment portfolios across asset classes.
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