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‘Life is so much richer when you have a north star and you actually go through a very concerted journey to get to that north star.’ – Durreen Shahnaz Professor Durreen Shahnaz shares her vision for tackling global inequality, revolutionizing finance, and empowering women. Drawing from her book ‘The Defiant Optimist:

The first Bangladeshi woman to work on Wall Street, the author of The Defiant Optimist talks about the role of finance in development and women’s empowerment

As the guests arrived, the room brightened up and a conversation began that would eventually go on to deeply invest in exploring the nature of power and of defiantly opposing the status quo.