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Durreen Shahnaz

  • Founder and CEO, IIX
Asia–Pacific (APAC)
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#Defiant, #Optimist, #Feminist, #SocialEntrepreneur, #Pioneer in #ImpactInvesting, #Founder of @iixglobal, #Mom and the author of The Defiant Optimist
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Unleashing the power of impact investing for the SDGs

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By Durreen Shahnaz, Giulia Bottaro
| sgvoice.net
Register FREE for the SG Voice newsletter, bringing you the latest news and insight from across the Sustainable Growth landscape. Thank you for signing up to our newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Durreen Shahnaz, chief executive and founder of Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) and author of The Defiant Optimist, writes about the interconnectedness of impact investing and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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How Durreen Shahnaz Is Helping Rural Bangladeshi Women Run Their Own Business

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By Durreen Shahnaz
| She The People
From growing up with constrained life chances to working as the first Bangladeshi woman on Wall Street, to becoming a global leader in impact investing, Durreen Shahnaz takes the readers on a mesmerizing journey of innovation, compassion, and enterprise. Durreen Shahnaz elaborates on her tours to the villages in Bangladesh where she helps women entrepreneurs learn to proudly sign their names and on visits to venture capitalists who walk past her to shake her male employees’ hands.
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How an entrepreneur is helping women in rural Bangladesh run their businesses

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By Durreen Shahnaz
| Scroll.in
Brilliance and inventiveness do not come from expensive degrees but from passion and dire necessity. Sometimes when I was working on Wall Street, I’d look around at my colleagues and wonder if they were actually any smarter or harder working than some of the women who had raised me in Bangladesh. And now, working with Grameen Bank, I would often look at the women entrepreneurs and think: I could have easily been them.
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