Suzanne is founder of Catalyst at Large Ltd and is a globally-recognised expert on gender-smart investing. As Co-Founder of GenderSmart she steers strategy, programming, participation, and communications. She is an adviser to foundations, DFIs, and other institutional investors on gender-smart investing, and is a pioneer with her personal portfolio in this arena.
Read MoreDarian is an accomplished impact investor, social entrepreneur, conference producer, and best-selling author. His work “helping people help” started during his five-year tenure as Executive Director of Craigslist Foundation, after which he co-founded several social impact conference series, consulted to a wide range of mission-led clients, and supported the UN's development of the SDGs around gender and climate. His role on the Summit includes overseeing fundraising, finances, and strategic partnerships.
Read MoreSigrid is a seasoned global event producer and live content developer who has collaborated with Fortune 500 corporations, governments, nonprofits, media, and academic institutions to advance diversity and gender initiatives for innovation and market growth. She oversees operations and production at GenderSmart and is passionate about serving as a connector, building communities with reach and impact. She speaks German and English and lives in Washington, DC.
Read MoreSana is a social entrepreneur, gender lens investor and activist. She has grown a social impact accelerator, advises on and implements effective blended finance solutions and provides capacity building and advisory support around impact ecosystem building and embedding gender lens frameworks. Her role is to shape the overall GenderSmart programme and Summit agendas, ensuring that topics and themes covered reflect the diversity of voices, trends, challenges and opportunities that underpin the mobilisation of capital in a strategic and gender-smart way. She is also the Lead for the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Working Group. She is based in Frankfurt, Germany.
Read MoreStella is a project manager, facilitator and coach who joins the Summit team from a career in international development, where she specialised in the design and delivery of leadership programmes for young people in East Africa. Stella’s role on the Summit is to be the glue that keeps everything together, working across the team to ensure efficiency and coordination as well as supporting our delegates and supporters on their Summit journey. Stella is based in the UK, splitting her time between the rolling hills of North Yorkshire and the addictive buzz of central London.
Read MoreDebbi’s role spans design, communications and editorial. She is a writer, editor and generalist with a broad creative skillset developed during a career at startups, including her own. She launched a print magazine, events series and global network designed to challenge traditional media representations of women and was previously Creative and Digital Lead at Women Effect, a pilot community for gender lens investors now housed at Wharton Social Impact Initiative. Debbi is based in Valencia, Spain.
Read MoreJulie is a project coordinator, supporting the GenderSmart team across various working groups. She joins the team following a career as an attorney-turned-social-entrepreneur working with Indigenous artisans in the Americas. She’s also a trained pastry chef. Based in the greater New York area, though she makes frequent trips to the UK to be near her family.
Read MoreElise is a gender studies graduate, experienced in working within the non-profit sector. She is passionate about bringing an intersectional feminist perspective to her work and challenging the status quo. Before joining GenderSmart, she has supported a variety of international teams to deliver programmes, conferences and supported their overall project coordinations. Raised by French parents and growing up in Germany, Elise is now based in London, UK.
Read MoreSwati is a development and impact investing professional with several years of on-ground experience in impact investing and business development in South Asia. She has also worked in urban development and post-disaster reconstruction in Nepal. Prior to joining the GenderSmart team, Swati worked with the Impact Investing Institute, UK’s national advisory board on impact investing. Spinning off from her graduate dissertation on gender lens investing, Swati also runs a consulting start-up, through which she has been involved in designing an innovative financing vehicle for gender lens investments in emerging economies. She is based in London, UK.
Read MoreKatie joined from a career working in the higher education and charity sector at King's College London, and previously worked at a number of smaller charitable organisations. At King’s, Katie's main focus was creating and running bespoke programmes for future leaders from Israel and Palestine. Having run countless high-level international summits, Katie will support the team in delivering the Global Summit and virtual programming to a GenderSmart standard.
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