Unlocking Markets: How Supporting Female Entrepreneurs Can Spur Economic Growth

Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Speakers
Dina Powell McCormick

Global Head of Corporate Engagement and President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation, Goldman Sachs

Inez Murray

Chief Executive Officer, Global Banking Alliance for Women

Patricia G. Greene

Paul T. Babson Chair in Entrepreneurship, Babson College

Presider
Isobel Coleman

Senior Fellow and Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative; Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations

Unlocking Markets: How Supporting Female Entrepreneurs Can Spur Economic Growth

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