Defiant Optimist Series: Making Finance Work for the 99%
About this Event
Event Venue: Blue Jeans (registration details will be sent out shortly after ticket purchase)
A Defiant Optimist who is scaling gender equality through innovative partnerships, Anita Bhatia, Deputy Executive Director at UN Women, will be sitting down with Prof Durreen Shahnaz on March 9th, and discuss the present and future of gender equality in a post-COVID world and how they can create an inclusive future for women and underserved communities. This session will be a riveting conversation between two trailblazers who have made a positive difference in the lives of millions of women worldwide.
Join Professor Durreen Shahnaz in Defiant Optimist, their new online monthly series that features purpose-driven leaders who have made a real difference in communities — regardless of the circumstances.
Get your annual membership and be a part of the conversation that brings together the voices of some of the world’s most motivated and bold thinkers who are making finance work for all.
Your annual membership unlocks exclusive benefits:
- Access to all 9 live sessions and Q&A
- Quarterly networking events
- 2x free virtual webinar passes to share
- Discounts on future courses at IIX Institute
- Defiant Optimist digital badges
- Recordings of all 9 live sessions
Click here to learn more about the Defiant Optimist series. Have questions? Fill out this form and a member of their team will get back to you as soon as possible.
This session is in partnership with MarketAxess
MarketAxess operates a leading, institutional electronic trading platform delivering expanded liquidity opportunities, improved execution quality and significant cost savings across global fixed-income markets.
Join IIX and MarketAxess for a series of conversations that will bring together the collective strength of multiple ecosystem actors to discuss how capital markets can be used to drive gender equality for women around the world.
Time: 9:00 AM EST/ 10:00pm SGT
Location: Virtual
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2021
