In this working session Patience Marime-Ball and Ruth Shaber and participants identified barriers to mainstreaming gender lens investing and developed an influence strategy. The experts drew on insights and data unearthed while researching their new book, The XX Edge, written to bring more mainstream actors on board.
Ruth Shaber MD is the founder and president of the Tara Health Foundation, which promotes health, well-being and opportunity for women and girls through innovative evidence-informed programs. She is also the co-author of a new book written for mainstream investors, the XX Edge, which makes a persuasive data-led financial case for investing with a gender and broader diversity lens.
Patience Marime-Ball has more than two and a half decades of investment experience across capital markets and is widely recognized for using the levers of finance to innovate pathways for creating a more equal world.