Suzanne Biegel

Biography

Suzanne Biegel, Chief Catalyst at Catalyst at Large, and Co-Producer of the GenderSmart Investing Summit

Suzanne is a globally recognised expert on gender-smart investing. Her work has influenced hundreds of institutional and family investors, and billions of dollars in capital to move with a gender and impact lens. Her work spans research, field building, and advisory in gender-smart investing.

Suzanne was a founding board member of Confluence Philanthropy. She was Vice Chair of Liberty Hill Foundation. She is passionate about the role of investors and funders to shift market systems and invest for impact with a gender lens.

Suzanne is Senior Gender Lens Investing Adviser at Wharton Business School, is a Fellow at the Aspen Institute, and she teaches Getting Gender Smart at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She sits on the Investor Advisory Council for the Equality Fund, and on numerous advisory boards including Cornerstone Capital and SheEO. She also leads the Women, Girls, and Reduced Inequalities group at Toniic ,where she is an active member.

She has been coming to Skoll World Forum for 10 years, now, as a funder, as an investor, and as a field builder.

Suzanne was an award winning entrepreneur for the e-learning company that she built in the 1990s, and has won numerous awards throughout her 30+ year career, including the Beacon Award for Philanthropy and Social Investment, in the UK.

She is based in London.