Invisible Gates & Climate Startups
What's stopping entrepreneurs?
Mitchell Strauss is Special Advisor for Socially Responsible Investment Finance at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, a U. S. government corporation charged with mobilizing and facilitating US private investment in developing countries throughout the world. She is responsible for impact investing including policy and origination of innovative financing products and structures designed specifically to leverage socially responsible investment to achieve sustainable projects in emerging markets. She collaborates with other U.S. private sector, government and international government entities to assist in coordinating private and public funding to efficiently support projects with socially responsible or impact investment elements for the corporation including micro finance, health, and SME businesses the majority of which focus toward supporting women (2X).