As Director of Open Innovation, Leeat oversees Grand Challenges Canada’s growing portfolio of impact investments through the Transition to Scale and Stars programs.

Leeat brings robust experience in early stage impact investing, having previously worked with organizations like Social Capital Partners, managing a portfolio of unique pay-for-performance investments, and Grassroots Business Fund, advising social enterprises that create sustainable livelihoods for low income communities in East Africa. Leeat is a member of SVX’s Issuer Review Committee, Youth Social Innovation Capital Fund’s Investment Committee and former Co-Chair of Acumen’s Toronto chapter. Leeat has an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto where she lectures on social finance, social entrepreneurship, and gender lens investing.