Essma Bengabsia

Essma Bengabsia is an impact investor by profession and social justice advocate by passion. Through her work in impact investments, she focuses on how to leverage the power of capital markets to advance inclusion, equity, and well-being for society’s most vulnerable, including people of color, people with low incomes, and people living under occupation.

Ms. Bengabsia is the founder of Bengabsia Consulting, a boutique specialized consulting firm that works with investment firms, consulting firms, and institutional investors to advance their ESG and impact investment strategies. Previously, Ms. Bengabsia was a sustainable and impact investment specialist at Glenmede Trust, where she worked with over 300 clients including endowments, foundations, and high net worth individuals to invest their assets in impact opportunities across diversity and inclusion, environmental sustainability, and other thematic areas.

Ms. Bengabsia serves as a board member and investment committee member at the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, a $60 million New York-based family foundation whose endowment is 100% mission-aligned to advance gender, racial, environmental, and economic justice.

Ms. Bengabsia co-chairs the Investor with Solidarity with Palestine Working Group at the Racial Justice Investing Coalition, a group of over 450 investment professionals and firms who regularly convene to build partnerships, resource-sharing, and educational opportunities to advance racial justice through their investments.

Ms. Bengabsia is a 2024 Fellow in the NAIC Up Fellowship, a program that advances female of color professionals in the investment sphere.

Ms. Bengabsia earned her Bachelor of Science degree from New York University's Stern School of Business where she specialized in finance. She earned her Master of Public Administration from New York University's Wagner School of Public Service where she specialized in social impact, innovation, and investment.