Sonia Jordan-Kirwan

Manager - Gender Equality & Women's Economic Empowerment
CDC Group

Sonia Jordan-Kirwan is a Manager in CDC’s Gender Finance Team. Sonia started her career at the European Commission where she was responsible for integrating social and gender dimensions into Economic Partnership Agreements with developing 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 Timor Leste, Malawi and Nepal. At CDC, among other priorities, Sonia is responsible for codifying CDC’s gender support to investees. This involves designing and implementing gender interventions to enhance women’s economic empowerment; developing sector-specific support offerings, products and partnerships; and ensuring impact data and wider learnings are captured and communicated to further evidence the gender business case from across CDC’s portfolio.