Kate Wharton is an investment professional, social entrepreneur, and analytics enthusiast who has spent her career working towards unlocking private capital for high-impact transactions in frontier markets. She studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology and received an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Her work has taken her to varied roles like consulting at Deloitte, interning at JAAGO Foundation and Grameen Bank, serving as COO at Hala Systems and Refugee Open Ware and she currently works as a Senior Associate at CrossBoundary. Kate is passionate about broad-based economic development, clean energy, education, and human rights in fragile and conflict-affected states. She is equally excited about the new opportunities in nature-based solutions for climate change and conservation and is always looking for advances in AI/ML, remote sensing, and other technologies that can be applied to tackle big societal challenges.