Nithya Sharma is the Director of Global Strategy at Women’s World Banking where she is responsible for driving the development and implementation of the organization’s 10-year strategy to reach 100 million women, as well as country strategies in each of Women’s World Banking’s priority markets. She incubated the global Making Finance Work for Women FinTech Innovation Challenge to identify Fintech innovations serving unbanked and underserved women, which has now become a flagship event for the organization.

Amina Hassan is the Business Group Head of Khushhali Microfinance Bank in Pakistan. She has over 20 years of service sector experience focused on managing grassroots initiatives for socioeconomically vulnerable groups. Amina joined KMBL at inception as a branch manager and has progressed to become the first woman in the senior management team. In fact, this year, Khushhali is celebrating its 22^nd year and that’s also how long Amina has been with the bank.

 Jessica Espinoza is the CEO of 2X Collaborative, a global industry body that convenes the entire spectrum of investors to promote gender lens investing. She is also Chair of the 2X Challenge that has raised more than US$ 11 billion of gender lens investments since its launch at the G7 Summit in 2018. Jessica has a track record in originating, structuring and executing debt, mezzanine and equity deals in emerging and frontier markets with a strong focus on inclusive innovation.