Durreen Shahnaz

Gebundenes Buch

The Defiant Optimist

Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women

Beschreibung

When she launched the world's first social stock exchange, Durreen Shahnaz started more than a financial system; she sparked a movement. Defiant optimism means changing how systems work--and who they work for. In these pages Shahnaz offers strategies for placing women, the underserved, and the planet at the heart of financial systems.

Autor

Durreen Shahnaz has worked both in high finance on Wall Street and in microfinance in the back streets of rural Bangladesh. Following stints as an investment banker, development worker, educator, media executive, and social entrepreneur, Shahnaz founded a pioneering impact investment firm that brings together investors, development agencies, and entrepreneurs to advance sustainable development and empower millions of women. Shahnaz is on the Forbes "50 over 50" list and received the 2017 Oslo Business for Peace Award, often referred to as the Nobel Prize for Business. Shahnaz holds degrees from Smith College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins University. She and her husband have two daughters and live in Singapore.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 247
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 194mm x 143mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781506480763
• ISBN-10: 1506480764
• Artikelnr.: 64202182