About Ilena Dang
Ilena is a rising junior at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business majoring in International Political Economy and Business, with a concentration in Sustainable Business and a minor in French. She is interested in how finance can be reimagined to better support sustainable and inclusive economic development. This summer, she is conducting research on Capital for Climate by developing a case study of its funding model to examine how innovative financing mechanisms can advance economic and social development while overcoming limitations of traditional development finance. Her work aims to inform practitioners and contribute to emerging conversations on designing next-generation funding architectures for sustainable development.