The Defiant Optimist
Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women
Published on 27. June 2023
Book
Hardback
247 pages
978-1-5064-8076-3 (ISBN)
Description
When she launched the world's first social stock exchange, Durreen Shahnaz started more than a financial system; she sparked a movement. Defiant optimism means changing how systems work--and who they work for. In these pages Shahnaz offers strategies for placing women, the underserved, and the planet at the heart of financial systems.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 194 mm
Width: 143 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
449 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5064-8076-3 (9781506480763)
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Durreen Shahnaz
Defiant Optimist
Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women
E-Book
06/2023
Fortress Press
€21.99
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Person
Durreen Shahnaz has worked both in high finance on Wall Street and in microfinance in the back streets of rural Bangladesh. Following stints as an investment banker, development worker, educator, media executive, and social entrepreneur, Shahnaz founded a pioneering impact investment firm that brings together investors, development agencies, and entrepreneurs to advance sustainable development and empower millions of women. Shahnaz is on the Forbes "50 over 50" list and received the 2017 Oslo Business for Peace Award, often referred to as the Nobel Prize for Business. Shahnaz holds degrees from Smith College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins University. She and her husband have two daughters and live in Singapore.