Christina “CJ” Juhasz addressed the issue of gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, considered to be crucial for progressing across all the United Nations’ sustainable development goals.
In her capacity as the Chief Investment Officer of Women’s World Banking Asset Management, the investment arm of Women’s World Banking (WWB), a global network of microfinance institutions committed to ensuring that poor women have access to financial services, Christina Juhasz perfectly knows the legal, social and economic barriers that still have to be removed to meet this target.
When managing the organisation’s Capital Partners Fund, she directed equity investment into WBB’s network members and other women-focused microfinance institutions in order to provide them with responsible growth capital. As Chief Investment Officer, Ms. Juhasz raised over $30 million from institutional and high-net-worth investors to launch the WWB Isis Fund, the first and only women-focused microfinance private equity fund.