A special webinar in celebration of International Women’s Day
Empowering Women Through Investment: Driving Impact & Economic Growth
In our Webinar in Celebration of International Women’s Day, we explored how integrating ESG principles and Gender Lens Investing (GLI) strategies can create financial systems that safeguard human rights and unlock meaningful economic and social progress. Key Topics: 🔹 Protecting Women Through ESG & Finance Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria play a crucial role in ensuring that investments uphold fair labour conditions and ensure human rights protection. By integrating ESG principles, we can set higher standards for ethical business practices, safeguard women’s rights, and drive meaningful improvements in workplaces and supply chains. 🔹 Promoting Women Through Gender Lens Investing Gender Lens Investing (GLI) is a powerful approach that not only empowers female entrepreneurs but also enhances business performance and economic growth. By directing capital toward women-led businesses and gender-inclusive enterprises, we unlock new opportunities, create more resilient economies, and foster development that benefits everyone.
Listen to the full recording on our podcast channels—Voices of Impact Investing, the responsAbility investments podcast:
Find the transcript of the episode here
Event Details
Event Program
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| 10:00 | Welcome by responsAbility |
| 10:05 | Inputs by Emily Channon and Prajakta Saraph |
| 10:15 | Discussion about how we can empower women through finance |
| 10:30 | Close |
Meet the Speakers
Emily Channon
Senior ESG Officer
Emily Channon, Senior ESG officer at responsAbility, leads ESG for the Sustainable Food Equity (focusing on Latin America and Asia) and FI equity funds. She previously worked for five years as Head of ESG and Impact, at Gazelle Finance, a private equity fund. She studied at Hult International Business School London and THNK School of Leadership in Amsterdam.
Prajakta Saraph
Senior ESG Officer
Prajakta Saraph, Senior ESG Officer at responsAbility, is the ESG lead for the Financial Inclusion Debt funds. In the past three years she has worked across climate finance and financial inclusion products with expertise in ESG research and analysis. She studied at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and BITS Pilani, India.
Robert Widén
Director Nordics, responsAbility
Business development and relationship management in the Nordic region. Prior to responsAbility Robert was at the Nordic Investment Bank, Arctic. He held various sales & business development related roles, including Equity & Fixed Income Sales and was part of building up the capital raising arm in alternative investments. Formerly Robert also spent 2 years within Wealth Management at Pensum Asset Management. Robert holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in International Business from Warwick Business School, including an exchange year at Mannheim Business School. Fluent in English, Swedish, and German.