Hany 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 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 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 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 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 MoreRaya 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”.
Read MoreJennifer Pryce is President and CEO of Calvert Impact Capital. For 25 years, Calvert has strived to make markets work for more people, more often, by investing in communities overlooked by traditional finance. Calvert invests globally, spanning sectors such as affordable housing, environmental sustainability, microfinance, renewable energy, and small business.
Read MoreKelly Roberts-Robbins serves as Senior Consulting Director at Sagana. Throughout her career, Kelly has focused on gender lens investing, gender smart banking, and impact measurement and management. Kelly is passionate about strategy development through impact assessments, and efficient interventions that improve impact and business performance.
Read MoreBahiyah Yasmeen Robinson is a recognized innovator of new avenues for VC and Impact investment. Her expertise in leading technology, investment, and social impact initiatives since the early 2000s culminated in creating VC Include in 2018 to build platforms and programs for diverse emerging managers globally.
Read MoreVicki Saunders is an entrepreneur, award-winning mentor, advisor to the next generation of change makers and leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the world. Vicki is Founder of Coralus (formerly SheEO) and #radical generosity a global initiative to radically transform how we support finance and celebrate female entrepreneurs.
Read MoreAs a corporate anthropologist, Marijn inspires people with her vision for a better world. She is passionate about, and stubbornly committed to, solving world problems by unlocking the potential of women, ensuring that they get access to finance and seats at decision making tables.
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