Saadia Madsbjerg is a global leader in the field of sustainable and impact investing. She is a former managing director of The Rockefeller Foundation. She led the foundation's financial innovation program to seed-fund the development and launch of new financial instruments and partnerships designed to channel money from the capital markets toward sustainable development. She is a recognized thought leader who has served as an advisor on committees such as the Government of Canada's Privy Council Office Impact Canada Initiative Advisory Committee and the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Infrastructure. She has shared her learnings at influential conferences and through leading publications, including Harvard Business Review, Foreign Affairs, and The Financial Times. She holds a master of science in applied economics and finance and a bachelor of science in international business from Copenhagen Business School.