Liz Bronder

Liz Bronder has served as the Director at NetHope since February 2020. Prior to their current position, Liz was the Chief Executive Officer (Interim) at NetHope from February 2020 to December 2020. During their time as CEO, Liz restructured the organization, developed a new Back to Basics Better strategy and achieved financial sustainability. Leading the organization through the response to COVID required a complete shift to digital including the virtual delivery of Regional Chapter meetings in Africa, Latin America and North America, and the successful Annual Summit which attracted participants from 82 countries.

Before their time at NetHope, Liz served as the Senior Advisor, Innovative Finance at UN Women from February 2020 to May 2021. In this role, Liz focused on creating a gender and SDG bond market including 1. alignment with SDG and social bond Principles, 2. working with individual countries to identify SDG programs underpinning bond issuance, and 3. building high level partnerships across the UN, multilateral and regional development banks, donor countries, capital markets investors and underwriters, and Ministers of Finance. Liz was a senior contributor to the UN policy recommendations and process around Financing for Development at UNGA 2020, as well as Finance in Common led by the French Development Agency (AFD).

Liz Bronder has a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from Yale University, a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD, and Executive Education from Harvard Business School and Stanford University Graduate School of Business.