Carmen Niethammer is the Senior Gender Specialist at the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg. She leads the EIB Gender Team on women’s entrepreneurship inside and outside the EU, closing gender gaps while driving gains in productivity, competitiveness, and innovation. She joined the EIB from the IFC/World Bank Group which included long-term assignments in Brazil, Egypt, Sri Lanka and the United States. Carmen is a Forbes Contributor and a Senior Fellow at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at Erfurt University, is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Tune in to our discussion to hear how having more women in leadership can have positive impacts on meeting climate goals and why women's entrepreneurship inside the EU is lower than in other parts of the world.