Strength in a sari
Having built the world's first social stock exchange, particularly to benefit and empower women, Durreen Shahnaz now wants to take impact investing from the margins to the mainstream.
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GROWING up in the throes of the Bangladesh Liberation War had a profound impact on Durreen Shahnaz from an early age.
The experience of watching her country struggle to get back on its feet in its early days of independence stirred up in the former investment banker and founder of the Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) a defiance never to yield to others' notions of what she could or could not do.
"We are all a product of the country and culture we grow up in," she tells The Business Times. Bangladesh was known as East Pakistan when she was born, and one of her first memories as a child was the war with West Pakistan that lasted for about nine months in 1971.
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