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Suzanne Biegel


Catalyst at Large

Suzanne Biegel is founder of Catalyst at Large, and Senior Gender Lens Investing Adviser at Wharton Social Impact Initiative, Wharton Business School. She recently created a pilot initiative to bring together investors with a gender lens, called Women Effect, which is now at Wharton.

She is an active impact investor and philanthropist. Her work focuses on investing with a women and girls / gender lens, and her own portfolio is directed with a broader set of impact and gender lenses. She is also the Investment Director for SPRING, a project of DFID, Nike Foundation, USAID, and DFAT for ventures with a positive effect on adolescent girls in 8 countries.

She is the founder of Clearly Social Angels in the UK, part of ClearlySo, and was a founding board member of Confluence Philanthropy in the US. She holds several advisory board roles. She founded Women in Social Finance in London and co-founded the Values Based Investment group of Women Donors Network. She is a Catto fellow at The Aspen Institute. She is also a member of the Toniic/100% Impact Network. And a fellow for SDG 5 for Tribe Impact Capital.

She received the Beacon award for philanthropy and impact investing in the UK in 2015. She is a graduate of Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania. A native New Yorker, Suzanne has been based in London for the past 7 years