As we open the GenderSmart Investing Summit 2022 today, Suzanne Biegel reflects on the key actions needed to move the field forward and shift the needle in both numbers and impact. What do we most need to do to move more capital with more velocity and to greater effect?

Robyn Oates is a Sustainable Finance Specialist at UN Women. She is passionate about developing impact-centric standards, products and partnerships to support the sustainable financing ecosystem, including gender lens investing. She shares how UN Women is working with capital market actors to strengthen the credibility of gender lens investing, as well as her thoughts on how we can encourage different players in the space to work more effectively together.

Women of the World Endowment (WoWE) was created with a bold vision—build a $5B endowment, over the next 10 years, to centralise the role of women as economic, environmental, and social changemakers who are creating a high growth future. Investment Manager Pooja Eppanapally spoke to us about mainstreaming gender finance, evolving definitions, and their approach to impact and measurement.