Denise is an author, advisor, and project catalyzer working towards human and ecological flourishing. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project
Read MoreAfter some 20 years in investment banking and financial communications, Patricia Hamzahee now helps social enterprises attract private capital and advises private capital providers on their responsible investment strategies. Through Extend Ventures, she is also working to diversify access to funding for Black and ethnic minority businesses.
Read MoreDondi was one of the first Indonesians to work in early-stage investing (since 2011), in addition to launching a startup accelerator focusing on impact businesses. To jumpstart the Indonesian entrepreneurship ecosystem, he was also involved in setting up Jakarta’s first co-working space in 2013. Dondi is currently a Partner at Patamar Capital, leading investments in Southeast Asia. Patamar has fully implemented gender lens investment since 2017.
Read MoreAmy Haddad is a gender equality and social inclusion expert in foreign policy and development.
She was a principal gender equality specialist for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and has represented Australia in various forums at the United Nations, including while posted to the Permanent Mission of Australia to the UN in New York.
Read MoreMs. Gray is the Founder and Managing Partner of The 22 Fund (The 22), an impact, early-growth equity firm with a mission of growing intergenerational wealth and creating the clean, quality jobs of the future by increasing the global competitiveness of manufacturing companies, intentionally targeting women- and BIPOC-owned businesses.
Read MoreJulie Gorte is the Senior Vice President for Sustainable Investing at Impax Asset Management LLC and Pax World Funds. She oversees environmental, social and governance-related research on prospective and current investments as well as the firm’s shareholder engagement and public policy advocacy. Julie is also a member of the Pax World Gender Analytics team.
Read MoreJessica Espinoza is CEO of the 2X Collaborative, a global industry for gender lens investing convening the entire spectrum of capital providers. She is also Chair of the 2X Challenge that has raised more than US$ 11 billion of gender lens investments since its launch at the G7 Summit in 2018. Jessica has a track record in originating, structuring and executing debt, mezzanine and equity deals in emerging and frontier markets with a strong focus on inclusive innovation. The latest innovation she is spearheading with 2X colleagues is 2X Ignite, a bold facility to unlock capital for gender-smart business at scale by backing female-led fund managers.
Read MoreZee is a Director for Collaborative of Frontier Finance, focusing on the Early Stage Capital Providers cluster. She has two decades of investment experience working in Africa, London and New York. Her career includes co-founding Victus Global Capital, an organisation focused on transforming agriculture and empowering women in Africa through impact investment, capacity building, and increased trade.
Read MoreCorrea joined Pro Mujer in 2017 as the Director of Alliances. She has served in several different leadership roles, including becoming Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in 2021. Currently, she leads Pro Mujer as its CEO where she is expanding the organization’s impact to bring it closer to its goal of achieving gender equality in Latin America.
Read MoreLauren Compere is a Managing Director and Head of Stewardship and Engagement at Boston Common Asset Management, a majority-employee-owned and woman-led investment management firm specialising in U.S. and international responsible investing.
Read MoreTara Sabre Collier is a sustainable finance advisor to governments and development finance institutions, including leading ecosystem building for MOBILIST, the UK government’s flagship climate finance mobilisation programme, which invests in developing economy sustainable finance products and takes them to IPO. In addition to advising other impact investors and funds, she is a Visiting Fellow at Said Business School, Oxford University and an angel investor focusing on BIPOC-led impact ventures.
Read MoreAnne-Marie is CIO of FSD Africa Investments, the investment arm of FSD Africa. A Zimbabwean, she is the former CEO of FSD Mozambique, and Co-founder of Alitheia IDF Managers, a private equity fund manager investing in women-led businesses.
Read MoreA feminist anthropologist by training, Rebecca has spent decades leading gender and inclusion focused research, training, evaluations, designs, strategy development, and project implementation based on a deep contextual understanding of intersectional identities and power dynamics, social and gender norms, and political economy issues.
Read MoreHamza is a Partnership Officer at the International Development Research Centre, the Canadian Government’s development research agency that champions and funds research and innovation in developing regions to drive global change. Hamza has 15 years of experience managing development aid programs overseas and mobilizing bilateral and multilateral resourcing for critical development challenges, including advising developing country governments on policy reform.
Read MoreDanielle Burt is an independent consultant that works with clients to develop and implement effective gender strategies in the private sector. Previously, Danielle served as the Gender Lead at the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA), building a Gender Benchmark that assesses and compares large companies on how they drive gender equality and women’s empowerment across their full value chains. Danielle spent the first ~15 years of her career in the private sector – including strategy consulting at McKinsey & Company and strategy and marketing at Nike - before shifting her focus to driving social justice in this context.
Read MoreJennifer Buckley founded Sweef Capital as an independent firm in mid 2021, having led the Asia and women’s economic empowerment investment programs for Small Enterprise Assistance Fund (SEAF) since 2018.
Read MoreJen currently leads British International Investment’s cross-cutting advisory teams – climate change, gender equality, job quality and skills & leadership - whose collective goal is to create additional value through adopting an impact lens (both at the market level and with BII’s portfolio businesses).
Read MoreMelissa L. Bradley is Founder of 1863 Ventures, a business development program that accelerates New Majority entrepreneurs from high potential to high growth. Melissa serves as General Partner of 1863 Venture Fund, Venture Partner at NextGen Ventures and serves an advisor to Reign Ventures, New Voices Foundation, as well as the Halcyon Fund.
Read MoreCarey 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.
Read MoreIn 2011, Boyea-Robinson founded CapEQ, formerly Reliance Methods, to help Fortune 500 clients like the Carlyle Group, Marriott, and others change the way the world does business. Tynesia has been religiously leading and writing about enterprises that “do well and do good” for over a decade. As President and CEO of CapEQ, she continues to demonstrate how business and community goals can powerfully align towards mutual outcomes.
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