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Monique Aiken

Managing Director, The Investment Integration Project (TIIP), US

Monique Aiken is the Managing Director at The Investment Integration Project, taking point on special initiatives and strategic priorities. She was host of ‘The Reconstruction,’ a 24-episode podcast series hosted at ImpactAlpha, where she is also a Contributing Editor and biweekly host of the “Briefing” podcast. Monique is co-founder of Make Justice Normal, a growing collective seeking to open space for people working to move capital towards justice, and the ReStarter Fund, which is an economic and climate justice initiative aiming to be a small business lifeline in these unique times.

Ms. Aiken has been guiding investors in aligning their social impact and investment objectives for over a decade, after nearly 15 years in financial services with Bank of America, Citigroup, and Deutsche Bank. In addition to TIIP, her +10 years of impact experience includes time as Vice President of Programs, at Mission Investors Exchange, a 250+ member network for outcomes focused practitioners in impact investing; Director at Tideline, a boutique strategy consultant in impact investing; and Project Manager for No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project at the Clinton Foundation. Ms. Aiken serves on the Investment Committee for the NYU Impact Investment Fund and the Steering Committee for the Intentional Endowments Network. Monique also serves on the Board of the Institute for Nonprofit Practice and the Advisory Board for the Global Bio Fund, which is focused on gender smart biotech and wellness.

Ms. Aiken is a proud Toigo, CGSM, SEO, and INROADS alum. She holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business where she specialized in Financial Instruments and Markets, and a B.Sc. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. Monique is a first-generation Jamaican-American, plays the tenor saxophone (badly), loves coffee, tea and travel (pre-covid at least) and is conversant in Spanish, Portuguese, and un petit peu of French. Monique lives in +100yr old fixer-upper in Plainfield, NJ with her husband and their delightful preschool aged son.