Mary Ellen Iskenderian, CEO of Women's World Banking on the Future of Impact Investing

In this interview for Forbes with Patsy Doerr, Mary Iskenderian, CEO of Women’s World Banking, provides insights on gender lens investing—the inclusion of gender considerations in the investment process. Iskenderian pinpoints the period after the financial crisis as a significant one for the expansion of gender-lens investing, stating that her organization has moved away from its original focus on microfinance institutions to “serving the greatest number of women through whatever channels available.” Iskenderian also voices the hope that “all of us begin to wear those gender glasses,” and that all impact investors begin to “recognize that their impact will be greater if they take a gender approach.”