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To mark our fifth annual tribute to
female leaders making a difference,
we celebrate women in finance
F
or Kai Li, a nance professor at UBC
Sauder School of Business, it's become a
familiar sight. In a typical year, about
50 percent of the school's commerce
undergraduates are female. But as third-
year specialization approaches, relatively
few women choose nance.
Li, who teaches a course that readies students for
the investment banking industry, thinks there's both a
supply and a demand problem. "People who I invite as
guest speakers, there are very few female role models,
unfortunately," she says. At the same time, investment
banking's long hours may not appeal to women seeking
work-life balance.
Despite such challenges, this province is home to a
remarkable group of women working in nancial roles.
For our fth annual B.C.'s Most In‡uential Women fea-
ture, we again sought the advice of an expert panel (see
p.47)—three of whose ve members are women mak-
ing their mark in nance—to identify names worthy of
recognition.
We dened nance broadly, to encompass every-
one from
CFOs and entrepreneurs to bank executives
and money managers. As usual, our list is representa-
tive, not exhaustive or denitive. The goal is to celebrate
the achievements of female leaders at di"erent career
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