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IMPACT INVESTMENT AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
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Thursday, July 18, 2019 from 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM (EDT)
Join us for our FINAL webinar of Season One!
Note: This program is a Live Webinar & Q&A that is accessible from any web-enabled computer or mobile device.
Impact Investment & Global Development
The international community is in agreement about the imperative for generating large scale private sector finance and deploying these funds towards development challenges. The sustainable development goals SDGs are a succinct set of aspirational goals. Impact investment, with its dual focus on financial returns and social impact, has the potential to contribute to achieving the SDGs.
In this webinar, we will discuss with leaders in the impact investment community:
Approaches to building collaboration across divides and cultures that separate large institutional investors, specialist impact investment firms, philanthropies and development finance institutions DFIs
Status report on efforts to gain traction on applying impact investment principles to global development
Perspectives on ensuring good governance of the global impact investment community, to better achieve adherence and commitment to accountability, representation and diversity
Track record and good practice in extending field building efforts to under-reached areas of the world and an understanding of the enabling factors to encourage impact investment
Communication strategies to capture the attention of millennials and youth
This webinar is the second in a series of three programs focused on diversity, inclusion and accountability in impact investment designed in collaboration with Gillian Marcelle of Resilience Capital Ventures LLC. For more information on the series, visit this link.
Moderator
DR. GILLIAN MARCELLE, founder of Resilience Capital Ventures LLC, is a blended finance specialist. She is a senior leader in finance and international development who currently works on capital raising for large cap funds, provides support to startups led by women and people of color and advises on ecosystem strengthening for impact investment. Her track record in attracting investment to emerging markets includes equities and capital markets work with JP Morgan Chase in Sub Saharan Africa and more recent investment promotion for the United States Virgin Islands, a US Territory in the Caribbean. She has also led project teams in post conflict countries for the International Finance Corporation. A long-time advocate for social justice and economic transformation, she has provided public service at the highest levels of the international community, having been appointed to the UN ICT Task Force by Kofi Annan, then UN Secretary General. Her academic qualifications include degrees in economics, business administration and innovation policy from the University of the West Indies, Kiel Institute of World Economics (Germany) George Washington University (USA) and SPRU, University of Sussex (UK).
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GISELLE LEUNG serves as Managing Director of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing. In this leadership role, she provides strategic direction on how the GIIN supports the global impact investing industry and drives the cultivation of strategic partnerships. Giselle joined the GIIN in 2010 as the founding manager of the Investors’ Council, a leadership group of experienced, large-scale impact investors.
Prior to joining the GIIN, Giselle was a manager at Enterprise Solutions to Poverty (ESP), where she worked with leading companies in India, China, Colombia and Mexico to build inclusive business strategies that engage the poor in areas of agribusiness, microfinance, and social enterprise. Giselle began her career at Cambridge Associates providing investment portfolio analysis to large non-profit endowments, and was a business strategy consultant at Braun Consulting. Giselle also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Panama where she advised rural artisan groups on business operations, marketing and sales. Giselle holds an MBA and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia Business School and The School of International and Public Affairs, and a BA in psychology from Harvard University.
STEPHEN NOLAN is Managing Director at the United Nations Environment Financial Centers for Sustainability Network. He is also Founder & CEO of Sustainable Nation Ireland. Prior to his current role at the UN, Stephen was Special Advisor to the Secretary General, CEO of the UN’s Global eSchools & Communities Initiative, and co-founder and CEO of Green International Financial Services Centre.
Stephen has led and delivered initiatives from start-up to scale across both public/private spheres in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and North America. He has a background in technology, policy and, most recently, sustainable and responsible finance, and he possesses a distinct skillset/understanding of the machinery of Government, international agencies and businesses/capital markets, and where they collaborate to drive market opportunities. His track record demonstrates the ability to successfully lead, raise capital for and execute complex, multi-stakeholder undertakings at the highest levels internationally.
DURREEN SHAHNAZ is a global leader of social impact and impact investing. She is also the founder of Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) and IIX Foundation. IIX is the home of the world’s first social stock exchange and the largest impact investment private placement platform. IIX is also a leader in impact assessment methodology and innovative financial structures such as the world’s first Women’s Livelihood Bond. The company bridges the gap between finance and development by carving out a third space for social and environmental solutions through financial mechanisms and subsequently driving forward the Sustainable Development Goals. IIX and IIX Foundation’s work has a particular focus on women empowerment, climate action and community resilience. IIX will soon be launching the WLB 2 which will unlock US$100m of private sector capital to impact one million women across Asia. IIX is also set to launch IIX Values, its new technology-driven impact measurement and management platform that aims to radically transform the way voices of the end-beneficiaries are given a value in the financial markets at scale.
Born in Bangladesh with a career that has spanned the globe, Durreen has built a track record as a successful social entrepreneur, banker, media executive and academic at Morgan Stanley (New York), Grameen Bank (Bangladesh), Hearst Magazines International (New York), and the National University of Singapore. Additionally, she founded, grew and sold oneNest (New York) – an impact enterprise and online marketplace for handmade goods. oneNest was sold to Novica United, working in association with National Geographic Society. Through these roles, Durreen has broken down walls and built bridges in order to connect the backstreets of underserved communities to the Wall Streets of the world. Durreen is the recipient of the 2017 Oslo Business for Peace Award, often referred to as the “Noble Peace Prize for Business,” and was awarded the 2016 Asia Game Changer Award by the Asia Society in addition to the prestigious Joseph Wharton Social Impact Award in 2014 given by the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, she currently serves on the advisory board for UNDP, United Nations ESCAP, G20 Steering Committee for Impact Investing, and was also an appointed member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council. She has been a program advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative, a 2010 TED fellow, a TED speaker and is frequently invited to contribute as a resource person to media, foundations and universities. Durreen holds a BA from Smith College; a joint degree – MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MA from the School for Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University.
Nominee (to be named) of East Africa Private Equity and Venture Capital Association EAVCA is the umbrella organisation that represents private equity and venture capital funds in East Africa. Established by seven founding fund managers with operations in East Africa, the association has grown over the last five years to a current membership of 65 companies, representing DFIs, PE and VC fund managers, asset managers, and advisory firms.
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This webinar series and its companion series, Luminarias, are co-sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors as part of its Scaling Solutions Initiative.
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