Geetha is the Chief Impact Investment Officer of the WHO Foundation. An investment professional with 20+ years’ experience in Private Equity, Impact Investing and Venture Capital investing primarily in Africa, Latin America & Asia, after a start in corporate finance in Insurance. Geetha has expertise in gender lens investing, ESG and health. She worked in the global Portfolio Management team of the Abraaj Group, was head of Impact & ESG and was a founding member of the Global Health Fund, a billion-dollar impact fund investing in Africa and Asia. As a principal at Aureos Capital, the largest PE investor in Small and Medium Enterprise (SME), she focused on group strategy and sustainable investing, developing the first PE sustainability index. Geetha was a founding member of the world’s first Base of the Pyramid Fund and Africa’s first dedicated health investment fund. Previously Geetha was Partner - Africa & Global Head of Impact at LGT Impact. A member of Global Investment Committee, she was a deal partner with a focus on health, education, logistics, food & agriculture and financial services. Geetha is on the Advisory Board of the Church Commissioners £100m impact investment fund and grant funding program that is being set up in response to its research findings of historic links to transatlantic chattel slavery, the Investment Committee of Aleyo Capital (a Botswana Private Equity Fund Manager), is on the Board of and chairs the Investment Committee of Nyala Ventures, a gender lens fund of funds, and is on the Board of Okavango Capital Partners. She holds a BSc (Finance) from the University of Bridgeport, an MBA and MSc in Management Research from Oxford University (Private Equity as an instrument of development in Africa).