Tatjana Gerling, 2X Global’s Ambassador for Japan, shares her thoughts with 2X Global about responsible investing, the investment landscape in Japan and the opportunities to build upon and strengthen the gender lens investing ecosystem in Japan.

Halla Tómasdóttir is CEO and Chief Change Catalyst for The B Team, a group of global business and civil society leaders driving a better way of doing business for the well-being of people and the planet. As well as having leadership roles in Corporate America with M&M and Pepsi Cola, Halla was the first female CEO of the Iceland Chamber of Commerce and later went on to co-found Auður Capital, an investment firm with the vision of incorporating feminine values into finance. In 2016, Tómasdóttir was an independent candidate for President of Iceland, earning nearly 30% of the vote.

Halla joined GenderSmart to share her thoughts on the changes (or lack thereof) she has seen within the gender lens investing world over the past fifteen years, why we need to embrace feminine models of leadership and why she believes that quotas can benefit everyone.

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.

In spite of increasing interest, there are still relatively few pension funds applying an intentional gender lens to their investments beyond board diversity. We assess the opportunities and challenges for pensions in key global markets, and speak to a few early movers tapping into a broader spectrum of opportunity.