Through the 2X Global Summit 2025, we are collectively confronting a persistent challenge: despite decades of progress, women remain significantly underrepresented in decision-making spaces, in the capital flows that drive innovation and infrastructure, and in the systems that shape how we anticipate and respond to the crises defining our era. This exclusion is not only unjust—it undermines efficiency, innovation, and resilience.

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.

Shinsei Bank was the first Japanese Banking Group to launch an impact investing fund, and now has two funds focused on investments into businesses tackling the life challenges that are faced by the working population, including childcare, elder care, healthcare, work-life balance and work-style innovations. We spoke to Chunmei Huang and Sayaka Takatsuka, Managing Director and Senior Director on the Impact Investment Team of Shinsei Corporate Investment Limited in the Shinsei Bank Group, about their approach and growing the Japanese impact investing ecosystem.

Brightlight Impact’s Head of Investment Management Simba Marekera talks about the development and implementation of a radically inclusive community infrastructure strategy in New Zealand.

The five-year Pacific RISE program, an Australian Government DFAT funded initiative in partnership with Criterion Institute, is coming to an end in July 2021. The program, focused on building the impact investment market in the Pacific, found a number of challenges in implementing a gender lens in investment endemic to impact investing as a whole. In addressing these, Pacific RISE generated influential new insights and transferable learnings for gender lens investors worldwide.