Michelle is Co-Founder of The Beam Network, a membership-based organisation that focuses on financial education to enable women to have greater involvement in the management of their wealth and finances, whilst driving the movement towards financial systems and economic opportunities that are more inclusive and more sustainable.
Read MoreLelemba Phiri is an award winning educator, writer, keynote speaker and gender-lens angel investor. She is the Principal at the Africa Trust Group that takes a holistic approach to investing in women by investing in both the woman entrepreneur and the enterprise; and facilitating their access to markets and critical business tools. She is the Operating Partner for the US based Enygma Ventures Fund that is focused on investing in women entrepreneurs in SADC.
Read MoreEva has 17 years of experience working in the venture capital and asset management industries. She is currently the General Partner of Beyond Capital Ventures, a women-led impact venture capital firm, offering a diversified portfolio of companies in "need-to-have" sectors, led by conscious leaders; and CEO of Beyond Capital Fund an early stage investment fund that improves lives with its early investments.
Read MoreMarijn Wiersma joined British International Investment as Interim Gender Lead on 28 August 2020. Previously, Marijn worked for Arise Invest in Cape Town, where she set up and was heading their sustainable and inclusive finance work across the African continent. Prior to that she was, amongst other roles, Senior Financial Inclusion Advisor for FMO from 2008 until 2017.
Read MoreDr. Katharine Wilkinson is an author, strategist, teacher and one of 15 “women who will save the world,” according to Time magazine.” Her books on climate include the best-selling anthology “All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis”; “The Drawdown Review: Climate Solutions for a New Decade”; the New York Times best seller “Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming”; and “Between God & Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change.” A former Rhodes scholar, she is co-founder of The All We Can Save Project, in support of women leading on climate, and co-host of the podcast “A Matter of Degrees.”
Read MoreRachel Whittaker is Head of the Sustainability Investing Research Team at Robeco. She previously worked for Robeco from 2015 to 2017 as a Senior SI Analyst, and now leads a growing international team of SI analysts. Her team’s responsibilities include identifying the impact ESG has on business fundamentals, increasing and broadening SI sector knowledge and further developing the SDG framework for mapping and measuring SDG contributions across all investment portfolios. Before rejoining Robeco in 2021, she worked at UBS as SI strategist in the CIO Office of the global wealth management arm. Prior to joining Robeco in 2015, she worked in various SI roles for the UN PRI, Vontobel Asset Management, and Mercer’s Investment Consulting business. She started her career in 2000 as a sell-side equity research analyst. Rachel earned her undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, and an MSc in Corporate Environmental Management at the University of Surrey, UK. She is a CFA® charterholder.
Read MoreEmma Wheeler is an Executive Director and Head of the Women’s wealth program at UBS Global Wealth Management. This well-established and thought-leading program has focused since January 2017 on supporting the financial confidence, participation and wellbeing of female clients, mainstreaming the financial challenges that women face and driving wider financial services industry change to address these. The program also encompasses the topic of Gender Finance and the bank’s involvement with the Gender Smart Investing Summit, the global gathering of thought leaders to drive forward this investment megatrend.
Read MoreMoa Westman is a Gender Specialist at the European Investment Bank (EIB). She has ten years of experience in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment in climate and environment related investments, policies and projects in the private and public sector.
Read MoreTeresa is the MD of Tiedemann Advisors and co-leads the firm’s Seattle office, where she has direct responsibility for managing client relationships. She works closely with clients to understand their goals and objectives; manage their investments, including impact investing; and integrate their investment strategy, philanthropy, and estate planning into a cohesive wealth management plan. She serves as a member of the firm’s Internal Investment Committee and is also on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.
Read MoreSteven is an investment banker by training, having joined Palladium in 2014, after working in the investment banking teams at Merrill Lynch (now Bank of America) and Citi in both London and Johannesburg. In these firms, he specialised in corporate finance (balance sheet optimisation, structuring equity and equity-linked financings and debt advisory), before taking on wider coverage roles (which also included M&A).
Read MoreDiana van Maasdijk is the Co-Founder & CEO of Equileap, an organization aiming to accelerate progress towards gender equality in the workplace and the leading provider of data and insights on gender equality in the corporate sector. Prior to launching Equileap, Diana worked as Head of Philanthropy at ABN AMRO Private Bank and as Director of Development at MamaCash, the world's oldest international women's fund.
Read MoreDavid Uzsoki works as a Sustainable Finance Lead and Senior Advisor in IISD’s Economic Law and Policy Program. He has several years of experience in informing and advising public and private investors, government officials and financial market participants on how the allocation of capital can be better aligned with sustainability objectives.
Read MoreDune Thorne is a Partner at Brown Advisory where she serves on the Executive Committee & is the Chief Strategy officer for the Private Client and Endowment & Foundation Business. Brown Advisory is an investment advisory firm that manages over $140B for institutions and families from fourteen offices globally. Her work has evolved to focus on sustainable and impact investing, diversity and inclusion and the intersection between investing and philanthropy.
Read MoreKatharina is an Impact Manager at DEG. Trained as a development economist, she focused on the question of assessing gender equality and women's empowerment through microfinance. After leading a digital innovations team at a German NGO, she now supports DEG’s investment teams to integrate a gender lens in their projects and mainstreaming gender considerations throughout all activities. Doing so, she works on research studies and evaluations as well as incorporating gender indicators in DEG’s impact measurement system.
Read MoreKatharine supports the execution of the Gender strategy at British International Investment, focusing on gender data collection and impact measurement. She is co-chair of the Impact Measurement and Management Working Group of the Gender Finance Collaborative and sits on the Working Group for the HIPSO Gender metrics. She has experience working both in the impact investing and women’s entrepreneurship space, previously at Calvert Impact Capital and Cherie Blair Foundation for Women.
Read MoreTia Subramanian specialises in translating intersectional gender analyses into investment tools and thinking. She has worked on a variety of gender issues on the programmatic and investing sides. She has shaped philanthropic strategies, produced thought leadership on translating intersectional gender analysis into investment approaches, and run nonprofit delivery of reproductive health care services.
Read MoreYuri Soares is Chief Impact Officer at IDB Lab, where he is responsible for corporate, where he is in charge of impact and measurement and strategic communications. Dr. Soares previously managed the Lab's strategy unit and its business unit on climate and agriculture, where he developed a portfolio of investments in agtech and natural capital. IDB Lab is the Innovation Lab of the Interamerican Development Bank Group (IDB Group).
Read MoreLaurie is an impact investment banker, board member and active contributor to the impact investing industry. Among her currentboard engagements, she serves as a non-executive director of the CDC Group (the UK DFI), the UK Impact Investing Institute, Global Partnerships and Bridges Insights.
Read MoreAnuradha Shetty is an investment professional focused on impact investing. Most recently she was a Principal at the Soros Economic Development Fund, the impact investing arm of the Open Society Foundations. At SEDF she led a portfolio of work focused on women’s economic empowerment and investing in the care economy.
Read MoreShally Shanker is the founder and managing partner of AiiM Partners, which invests in businesses leveraging technology to address climate change and generate measurable social, environmental, and financial returns. The AiiM team, comprising investors, entrepreneurs, operators, and researchers, has invested in companies that have benefitted 3 million people worldwide with 50 percent of the assets invested in women founders and CEOs.
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