Katie Naeve works at the intersection of innovative finance, inclusive economic development, and the use of evidence and learning to drive social impact. She is currently Gender and Business Advisor with Value for Women, working with diverse ecosystem actors to increase gender equity in the private sector in the global south. Previously, she led Root Capital's global Impact team and gender lens investing initiative. She holds expertise in innovative and impact-linked finance, gender lens investing, and impact measurement and management.
Read MoreKanini is the Managing Director at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. She was previously MD for Toniic, and has worked at Board level in leadership positions at investment banks in London and the US, such as Bank of America-Merrill Lynch and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson.
Read MoreLuis is the Gender and Business Advisor at Value for Women. He has over 12 years of experience in the design and implementation of gender equality and women’s economic empowerment projects, advisory services, evaluations, studies, institutional strategies, and strategic partnerships.
Read MoreJessica is the CEO of Equilo, gender equality and social inclusion data analytics-as-a-service platform, offering a broad range of tools to support gender smart investment. She is a gender equality and social inclusion expert with 20 years of experience conducting gender analyses, action planning, and integration support globally across sectors. She enjoys co-imagining and creating, new ways to facilitate gender lens investment.
Read MoreEllen Martin is Circulate Capital's Chief Impact Officer. In her role, Ellen is responsible for driving impact and insights for Circulate Capital and its affiliated nonprofit, The Circulate Initiative, and providing shared evaluation, research, analysis and strategy services across the organisations. As a member of each organisation’s leadership team, Ellen is focused on ensuring collective strategies, assets, and relationships deliver impact as Circulate Capital grows.
Read MorePatience 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.
Read MoreSimba is the Head of Investment Solutions at Brightlight Group. He leads Brightlight’s work in designing and managing impact investment portfolios with and on behalf of institutional investors, government entities and non-profit organisations, foundations and family offices that are looking to allocate capital in line with UN Sustainable Development Goals with the goal of transforming lives.
Read MoreAnne-Marie Lévesque is Director, Gender and Impact Management at FinDev Canada, Canada’s bilateral development finance institution (DFI), where she oversees the implementation of FinDev Canada’s Gender Equality Strategy, Development Impact Framework and Environmental and Social Policy.
Read MoreAndrew Lee is Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing for UBS Global Wealth Management's Chief Investment Office. In this capacity, he and his team provide investment strategy, advice and thought leadership on integrating sustainability and impact into investment portfolios across asset classes.
Read MoreSophie is the Founder and CEO of Kite Insights. Kite Insights is a research and communications agency focused on helping organisations deliver impact on the pressing social, economic and environmental issues of our time
Read MoreAs Head of Investments for the Visa Foundation, Najada Kumbuli is responsible for leading the investment effort in support of the Foundation’s mission to enable an equitable and efficient access to capital for women and underserved entrepreneurs.
Read MoreTrained as a lawyer, Chantal feels strongly about social justice. She is a strategic executor and contributes to making our world a better, inclusive and more sustainable place.
Read MoreHeather is the Women’s Entrepreneurship Product Lead for IFC’s Gender Secretariat. In this role, she is the global technical specialist advising clients, project teams, and partners on how to close gender gaps in entrepreneurship, with the goal of unlocking opportunities for increased profit, growth and innovation for both IFC clients and women entrepreneurs in emerging markets.
Read MoreEleanor Keppelman is a Director on the Social Enterprise Finance Team at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). In her role, Ms. Keppelman originates, structures, negotiates and underwrites debt investments to social enterprises, financial institutions and impact funds operating in low and lower middle-income countries. She is also part of the DFC team implementing the agency’s 2X Women’s Initiative. Ms. Keppelman lives in Taipei, Taiwan with her husband and two children.
Read MoreSana is Head of Content at GenderSmart, where she curates and develops programming for the global gender finance community. She leads the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Working Group and a Care Economy initiative. A gender smart investing specialist and global changemaker, her career has spanned development finance, impact investing and equity research.
Read MoreSucharita joined ANDE in September 2017 as the India Chapter Manager. She brings with her more than two decades of experience spanning the social enterprise, IT, non- profit, and consulting industries including various senior management roles in consulting, program & project management, social enterprise management, training, and facilitation. A people person through and through, she has a passion for doing her bit to make the world a better place and sees social entrepreneurship as a means to this end. Sucharita has a Masters in Business Administration from the SAID Business School, Oxford and a Masters degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Systems from the Florida Institute of Technology.
Read MoreShalaka Joshi is the Gender Lead, South Asia for the International Finance Corporation (IFC)- the private sector focused arm of the World Bank- where she works on gender in the private sector.
Read MoreHyunjoo Je is Managing Partner at Envisioning Partners, an impact investing institute based in Seoul, Korea. Envisioning Partners was established by key investment professionals of Yellowdog, one of the pioneer impact VCs in Korea. Hyunjoo, prior to Envisioning Partners, led Yellowdog as CEO and used to work at Carlyle Asia Buyout Fund, Credit Suisse and McKinsey & Company.
Read MoreAs Director of Knowledge and Thought leadership, Dr. Igbokwe leads the strategic guidance and enhancement of the overall content program at Convergence. He combines over 15 years of research experience in global capital markets, economic development policy, and development finance with more than a decade of private-sector financial advisory and institutional client management.
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Since joining Shinsei Bank in 2005, Ms. Huang has consistently engaged in principal investment and built private equity investment career. Ms. Huang has also performed as a member of multiple funds’ investment committee, board director and/or corporate supervisor for portfolio companies and funds’ general partner.
Ms. Huang set up the impact team in 2017, currently managing two impact investment funds, “Childcare Support Fund” and “HATARAKU (WORK) Fund” as investment committee member. The “Childcare Support Fund” was the first impact investment fund for Japanese bank group.
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