Monique Aiken

Monique Aiken is a strategist, systems thinker, author, founder and podcaster with 25 years of experience in finance and impact. 

For the first 12 years of her career in traditional finance, Monique moved between New York, London and Houston, splitting time between Debt Markets at Bank of America and Citi and Commodity Derivatives at Deutsche Bank. For the next 9 years, she focused her energies on advancing the impact economy at the Clinton Global Initiative, Tideline, a boutique impact investing strategy advisor, and Mission Investors’ Exchange, where she led Programs for members looking to begin or deepen their practice of impact investing. 

In 2020, she joined The Investment Integration Project (TIIP) as its Managing Director.  TIIP connects systems thinking with investing for institutional investors through custom consulting, applied research and a SaaS platform, SAIL, the Systems Aware Investing Launchpad that allows investors to learn about “system-level investing” at their own pace.

Monique is also co-founder of Make Justice Normal, a nonprofit collective opening space for people working change narratives and move capital towards justice, for which she is host of their podcast, "Into the Record", and co-cofounder of the ReStarter Fund, an economic and climate justice initiative on a mission to be a small business lifeline in these times of polycrisis.

As a contributing editor at ImpactAlpha, Monique also serves on the boards of Responsible Alpha and the Institute for Nonprofit Practice. She is also a member of the Steering Committee for the Intentional Endowments Network, the NYC Racial Equity Endowment Fund, and the Investment Committee for the NYU Impact Investment Fund. Additionally, she serves on the Advisory Board for the Global Bio Fund, focused on gendersmart biotech and wellness, the WELL Certified Sustainable Finance Task Force and the Community Advisory Board for New York Radio (WNYC).

Monique is a proud Toigo, SEO, and INROADS alum and holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and a B.Sc. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, where she studied Spanish and Portuguese. Her first children's book, a love letter to her son (and all children), was published in January 2024.