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Business Daily: Business Daily meets: Durreen Shahnaz

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13/10/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Business Daily meets: Durreen Shahnaz

From Bangladesh to Wall Street and back again

From Bangladesh to Wall Street and back again, we hear from the founder and CEO of Singapore-based Impact Investment Exchange.

From Bangladesh to Wall Street and back again, the founder and CEO of Impact Investment Exchange talks to Devina Gupta.

Durreen Shahnaz explains how her childhood in socialist Bangladesh and then move to a job on Wall Street in the 1980s shaped the person and businesswoman she is today. 

From trading stamps with her friends and buying pickles with the profit, she moved on to bigger trades at the heart of capitalism. What she learnt there set her up for a life dedicated to trying to make the financial system work for those most in need. 

Presenter: Devina Gupta
Producer: Hannah Bewley

(Image: Durreen Shahnaz. Credit: Durreen Shahnaz)

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