Social Impact Investment
Durreen Shahnaz
World's First
Social Stock Exchange
Professor Durreen Shahnaz is the Founder and Chairman of Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX), a social stock exchange which will allow Asian social enterprises to raise growth capital (www.asiaiix.com).
Biography
Professor Durreen Shahnaz is the Founder and Chairman of Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX), a social stock exchange which will allow Asian social enterprises to raise growth capital (www.asiaiix.com). Prof Shahnaz also recently founded Impact Investment Shujog, the capacity and awareness building affiliate organization of IIX. Prof Shahnaz is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore where until recently she was heading up the Program on Social Innovation and Change.
Prof Shahnaz has been a change maker throughout her career which has spanned both the social and private sector. As a successful social entrepreneur, she founded, ran and sold oneNest, a New York-based social purpose business.
Prof Shahnaz began her career in the social sector at Grameen Bank (Bangladesh – also her country of birth) where she played a critical role in the bank’s first major capital raising exercise. She also had stints at the World Bank and at International Finance Corporation in Washington DC.
Shahnaz has been a change maker throughout her career which has spanned both the social and private sector
In the private sector, Prof Shahnaz worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley (New York) before moving to the media sector. As the head of three regional media companies (Asia City Publishing Group, Hearst Magazines International and Reader’s Digest Asia), Prof Shahnaz worked vigorously to incorporate social responsibility in these companies’ work.
Prof Shahnaz holds a BA from Smith College; and a joint graduate degree -- MBA from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and MA from School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Recently Prof Shahnaz was nominated as a TED Fellow and Asia Society Asia 21 Fellow.
Website: asiaiix.com
