Bridging the Finance Gap for Women Entrepreneurs

Acknowledgements

This report was developed under the responsibility of the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director, in collaboration with the Global Women’s Entrepreneurship Policy Research Project (Global WEP) co-chaired by Beldina Owalla and Tim Vorley of Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom.

The collaboration was initiated by Jonathan Potter (OECD), Colette Henry (University of Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland), Susan Coleman (University of Hartford, USA), and Barbara Orser (University of Ottawa, Canada).

This report was edited by David Halabisky, Jonathan Potter and Helen Larrecq at the OECD and Beldina Owalla and Tim Vorley at Oxford Brookes University. Additional feedback was provided by Lucia Cusmano, Nadim Ahmad, Karen Maguire, Andrew Paterson, Shayne MacLachlan and Miriam Koreen of the OECD.

Part 1 contains chapters drafted by David Halabisky (OECD) and Helen Larrecq (OECD) with inputs from Beldina Owalla (Oxford Brookes University, UK), Miriam Koreen (OECD) and María Camila Jiménez (OECD).

Part 2 comprises policy insight notes drafted by the following experts from the Global WEP and OECD networks.

 

Australia note	Professor Naomi Birdthistle	Griffith University
	Professor Patrice Braun	Federation University Australia
	Associate Professor Antoinette Flynn	University of Limerick
	Professor Robyn Eversole	Bucknell University
Brazil note	Professor Fernando Antonio Prado Gimenez	Federal University of Paraná
Canada note	Professor Barbara Orser	Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa
	Dr. Kanwal Bokhari	Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
	Dr. Tasha Richard	Department of Business & Social Sciences, Dalhousie University
People’s Republic of China (China) note	Dr. Dongling Zhang	Rockhurst University
	Dr. Wendy Wu	Edinburgh Napier University
Czechia note	Dr. Marie Pospíšilová	Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
	Professor Alena Křížková	Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Finland note	Professor Jarna Heinonen	University of Turku, School of Economics
France note	Professor Severine Le Loarne-Lemaire	Grenoble École de Management
India note	Dr. Roshni Narendran	University of Tasmania
Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran) note	Reza Ghiabi	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
	Nastaran Simarasl	California State Polytechnic University Pomona
Ireland note	Professor Colette Henry	Dundalk Institute of Technology and Griffith University
	Kehinde Ogunjemilusi	Dundalk Institute of Technology
Italy note	Associate Professor Michela Mari	Tor Vergata University of Rome
	Professor Sara Poggesi	Tor Vergata University of Rome
	Professor Paola Paniccia	Tor Vergata University of Rome
	Dr. Silvia Baiocco	Tor Vergata University of Rome
Kazakhstan note	N. Zhaksybayeva	Nazarbayev University’s Research Centre for Entrepreneurship (NURCE)
	Dr. N. Aljanova	Nazarbayev University’s Research Centre for Entrepreneurship (NURCE)
	Professor S. Yousafzai	Nazarbayev University’s Research Centre for Entrepreneurship (NURCE)
	N. Kulbatyrov	Nazarbayev University’s Research Centre for Entrepreneurship (NURCE)
Malaysia note	Professor Ida Fatimawati Adi Badiozaman	Swinburne University of Technology
	Dr. Voon Mung Ling	Swinburne University of Technology
	Dr. Tze Yin Lim	Swinburne University of Technology
Mexico note	Professor Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodríguez	R.N. Trevinyo-Rodriguez & Asociados
New Zealand note	Dr. Janine Swail	Queens University Belfast
	Professor Anne de Bruin	The University of Auckland
	Professor Christine Woods	The University of Auckland
Nigeria note	Dr. Sola Adesola	Oxford Brookes University
	Ihinosen Ebinum	Procter & Gamble
Poland note	Professor Ewa Lisowska	SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Slovenia note	Associate Professor Katja Crnogaj	Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor
	Professor Karin Širec	Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor
South Africa note	Dr. Bridget Irene	De Montfort University
Spain note	Leyre Celdrán Edo	AEFI Asociación Española de FinTech e InsurTech
	Professor Cristina Díaz-García	University of Castilla-La Mancha
Sri Lanka note	Dr. Nadeera Ranabahu	University of Canterbury
Sweden note	Professor Carin Holmquist	Stockholm School of Economics
Tanzania note	Dr. Dina Modestus Nziku	University of the West of Scotland
	Dr. Chanel Bikorimana	Glasgow Caledonian University
Uganda note	Dr. Tabitha Sindani	University of Greenwich, Executive Business Centre
United Kingdom notes	Professor Tim Vorley (United Kingdom note)	Oxford Brookes University
	Professor Marc Cowling (United Kingdom note)	Oxford Brookes University
	Dr. Beldina Owalla (United Kingdom note)	Oxford Brookes University
	Associate Professor Antoinette Flynn (Wales note)	University of Limerick
	Professor Naomi Birdthistle (Wales note)	Griffith University
	Jill Pay (Wales note)	Co-founder and former Chairman, The Gender Index
	Christiana Stewart-Lockhart (Wales note)	Director General, Enterprise Investment Scheme Association
	John Cushing (Wales note)	CEO of mnAI
	Anne Meikle (Scotland note)	Women’s Enterprise Scotland
	Carolyn Currie (Scotland note)	Women’s Enterprise Scotland
	Fergus Hallwood (Scotland note)	Women’s Enterprise Scotland
	Professor Joan Ballantine (Northern Ireland note)	Ulster University
	Dr. Alison Hampton (Northern Ireland note)	Ulster University
United States note	Professor Emerita Susan Coleman	University of Hartford