Leeat is the Director, Social Finance at Grand Challenges Canada where she oversees the organization’s strategy and implementation of impact investing and blended finance solutions. Prior, she was the Director of Global Health Innovation where she oversaw a growing portfolio of investments through GCC’s Transition to Scale and seed programs.

Leeat brings robust experience in impact investing, having previously worked with organizations like Social Capital Partners and Grassroots Business Fund. She is a member of the Criterion Institute’s Advisory board on Shifting Narratives in Innovative Finance and the Transform Health Fund Advisory committee. Formerly, she was a long-standing member of SVX’s Issuer Review Committee and Co-Chair of Acumen’s Toronto chapter.

Leeat has an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto where she designed and lectured the school’s first undergraduate course on impact investing and social enterprise.