Sonia Jordan-Kirwan

Sonia leads British International Investment’s work to both positively impact women and girls across the value chain and to increase investments into Black-owned and -led businesses within sub-Saharan Africa.

Outside of her role at BII, she is a Board Director for 2X Global and an Expert Advisor to the UNFPA’s Equity 2030 Alliance. Sonia has also led several cross-DFI and MDB efforts on diversity-lens investing, including developing and aligning the impact investing industry around a suite of harmonised 2X and GIIN-aligned gender metrics; and leading DFI efforts – in collaboration with 2X Global – to further strengthen the 2X Framework.

Sonia started her career at the European Commission where she specialised in integrating gender and social chapters into Economic Partnership Agreements with emerging economy partner countries. She subsequently spent 8 years working in international development consultancy, both within PwC’s International Development Practice and Adam Smith International where she established and led the organisation’s Women’s Economic Empowerment work, spanning countries as diverse as DRC, Timor Leste, Malawi and Nepal.