Patience Marime-Ball is the founder and CEO of Women of the World Endowment, an investment nonprofit focused on centralizing women changemakers as economic, environmental, and social changemakers while delivering market-rate, risk-adjusted returns, and impact at scale. She has more than two and half decades of investment experience across capital markets – including debt and equity financing, large-scale infrastructure, distressed assets, as well as venture stage opportunities. Patience has led many “firsts” in the investing space; she developed the Banking on Women platform at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and was responsible for co-designing IFC’s multi-billion dollar Global Trade Liquidity Program, as well as the first-ever gender bond issued on the Uridashi market.