Meera Siva, CFA is a finance professional with experience in working with innovative solutions. She currently manages the Shelter Venture Fund, a global impact-first investment vehicle focused on low-income housing innovations. She started her career as an engineer in the Silicon Valley, designing semiconductor chips and systems; she has several patents in this domain. She worked at the Hindu Business Line, a financial newspaper in India, covering listed equity, personal finance and startups. She co-founded RaNa Investment Advisors, a consulting firm that worked with startups, angel investors and entrepreneur support networks for investment and market research, due-diligence and advisory. She is a Board Member of CFA Society India, a member Society of CFA Institute, USA.
Habitat for Humanity is a global nonprofit housing organization working in local communities across all 50 states in the U.S. and in approximately 70 countries. Habitat’s vision is of a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
The Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter, a unit of Habitat for Humanity International, works with housing market actors to expand innovative and client-responsive services, products and financing so that households can improve their shelter more effectively and efficiently. The goal of the Terwilliger Center is to make housing markets work more effectively for people in need of decent, affordable shelter, thereby improving the quality of life for low-income households.