12:10 – 13:00 Thursday 15 Nov

Money makes the world go around: Gender-lens investing for social impact

#genderlensinvesting

Hosted by the Women & Supplier Diversity Daring Circle

Applying gender-based investment criteria to improve returns or improve gender outcomes, is gaining momentum as a means of deploying capital toward global gender issues. But like other forms of impact investing, this ‘gender-lens investing’ faces challenges. How do you really measure the impact? Can it generate financial returns equal to traditional investment?

Companies are also increasingly adopting a gender-lens in areas such as media spend, human capital investments and supply chain programmes. When done correctly, these can accelerate women’s empowerment beyond the organisation that puts them in place, having a positive effect on broader society.

● How can gender-lens investing help impact gender equality issues beyond more?

● How can gender-lens investing be used beyond the financial services industry and

within organisational budgeting, policy decisions, etc?

● How can companies be strategic in their purchasing and spending decisions to

empower and benefit from women in their organisations and supply chains?

Moderator: May Busch, Executive Coach, Speaker, Advisor

Speakers:

Ø Suzanne Biegel, Founder, Catalyst at Large

Ø Fares Sayegh, Vice President, Supply Chain Europe, P&G

Ø Linda Scott, Emeritus DP World Chair for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Said

Business School

Ø Carlyn Taylor, Global Co-leader, Corporate Finance & Restructuring, FTI Consulting

15:00 – 15:50, Thursday 15 Nov

Gender-lens investing, applying gender-based investment criteria to improve returns or impact gender outcomes, is recently gaining momentum as a means of deploying capital toward global gender issues. But like other forms of impact investing, it faces hurdles to measure impact and outcomes and to generate financial returns at least equivalent to traditional investments.

● How can gender-lens investing help create impact on gender equality issues beyond more traditional responsible investing?

● How can gender-lens investing be used beyond the financial services industry and within organisational budgeting, policy decisions, etc?

Ø Suzanne Biegel, Founder, Catalyst at Large

Ø Jessica Robinson, Founder & CEO, Moxie Future

Ø Fares Sayegh, Vice President, Supply Chain Europe, P&G