Gillian Marcelle, PhD is a senior leader in finance and economic development with a proven track record in attracting investment to emerging markets. She leads Resilience Capital Ventures LLC, a boutique capital advisory practice specialising in blended finance. Resilience has been successful in capital raising, including mobilizing domestic investors in Caribbean markets for a Fund issued by international investor MPC Capital AG. Dr Marcelle has designed and initiated a blended finance partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative, has served in staff roles with the International Finance Corporation, in equities research & capital markets at JP Morgan Chase and M&A with British Telecom.
As part of her thought leadership practice, she is very active in the impact investment space, where her contributions and perspectives on diversity, inclusion, accountability and alignment with the SDGs are becoming influential. Her Sub-Saharan African activities include serving as a non-Executive Director of an innovative fintech Tafari Capital Pty Ltd. and she previously was a tenured Associate Professor at Wits Business School, Johannesburg, South Africa where she designed and led a teaching and research programme on innovation studies and management. Her pioneering work on gender and technology policy includes advocacy at the highest levels of the international community, including serving as a member of the UN ICT Task Force and founding the WSIS Gender Caucus.
As a research-active scholar, an advocate, and advisor Dr. Marcelle has sought to apply the insights gained and those of her deep and wide professional and academic networks to the Caribbean.