Virginia Littlejohn

I'm Virginia, I helped write the Women's Business Ownership Act of 1988, the law that ended the requirement for women to get a male co-signer on a business loan.

That fight taught me what I still believe: women entrepreneurs are an economic force, and the systems around them need to catch up. I've spent decades building those systems, from the OECD to the International Trade Centre to the Women20 of the G20, where I now co-head the U.S. delegation.

The work is always the same: close the gaps in capital, markets, and policy so women can scale. What brought you here?