Nathalie Hoffmann is a Gender Specialist at IFC’s Gender Secretariat where she promotes the cross-cutting efforts to integrate gender into IFC’s investment and advisory activities and supports the implementation of gender-smart business solutions in client companies. She focuses specifically on enabling companies to address gender gaps in employment and agribusiness value chains, and thereby drive gains in productivity and competitiveness. She is the co-author of IFC’s 2016 report “Investing in Women along Agribusiness Value Chains.” Prior to joining IFC, she advised the German Development Agency GIZ on women´s economic empowerment in the private sector in the Middle East and North Africa region and coordinated knowledge management activities at the Gender Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Chile. She holds an MSc in International Management from the University of Bath, UK.