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Durreen Shahnaz, the CEO and founder of the Singapore-based Impact Investment Exchange, highlighted the importance for social bonds to include the perspective of their beneficiaries. For example, the bulk of COVID-19 responses across countries “have been carried out without an eye to its impact on the world’s most vulnerable community—women,” she said. “Yet women are bearing the brunt of the pandemic due to their outsized role at the front lines of health care delivery and at the backbone of their families.” READ MORE
The panel speakers at the Summit include Anshu Gupta, the Ramon Magsaysay Award winning founder and director of the Indian development organisation Goonj; Natasha Garcha, Director of Innovative Finance at Impact Investment Exchange (IIX). READ MORE