Joy Anderson

President & Founder
Criterion Institute

Joy is a prominent national leader at the intersection of business and social change, whose insights and experience have helped shaped hundreds of ventures as well as the movements of impact investing and 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 institutional engagement. In recognition of her leadership, Anderson was listed in Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business. She published A Blueprint for Women’s Funds on Using Finance as a Tool for Social Change in partnership with Global Fund for Women and Ms. Foundation, following the 2015 publication of Gender Lens Investing in Asia, published jointly with USAID, and Criterion’s The State of the Field of Gender Lens Investing.