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 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 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 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 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 MoreSimba Marekera is the Head of Investment Management at Brightlight Group, an impact investing fund manager dedicated to investing with the goal of transforming lives. He specialises in innovative financing and blended finance across a variety of Private Markets asset classes including infrastructure, real estate and credit/private debt both in developed and developing markets.
Read MoreKanini Mutooni is a Managing Director at Draper Richards Kaplan, a Venture Philanthropy institution focused on investing in global early stage entrepreneurs creating impact. She is also a Senior Adviser for Toniic, the global action network for impact investors with over 300 asset owners representing over $16b in investible wealth.
Read MoreHedda is the CEO of TIIME, an impact catalyst - driving capital towards positive societal impact (#impactimperative). She is a private investor, independent director, adjunct professor and advisor on issues related to sustainable development, impact finance and JEDI.
Read MoreLaurie Spengler is an impact investment banker, Board member and a recognised contributor to the impact investing industry. Laurie has over 25 years’ experience in international development with a focus on strategy, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions.
Read MoreLisa Witter is a serial political and policy entrepreneur who uses an intersectional gender lens in all her work. She’s the co-founder of Apolitical, a global peer-to-peer learning platform, used by 180k+ public servants in 170 countries and was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in the World. She's the CEO of the Apolitical Foundation whose mission is to support the next generation of trusted and transformation politicians.
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