Hana Hussain

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Hana Hussain is Investment Director at Big Issue Invest, the social investment arm of the Big Issue Group, where she leads the £25m Growth Impact Fund delivered in partnership with UnLtd. The fund backs diverse-led social ventures working in health, education and economic empowerment, providing flexible, patient capital to organisations tackling structural barriers to opportunity.

Before moving into impact investing, Hana spent more than a decade in banking and management consulting, and served as a UN Women UK Delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 2024. She has been recognised by Lloyds Bank as an Inspirational Role Model and was earlier an investment professional at Transform VC, where she focused on deep tech and fintech due diligence.

Alongside her investment role, Hana advises the West Yorkshire Combined Authority on innovation strategy and mentors emerging diverse fund managers through industry pathway programmes. Her work focuses on lowering barriers to capital for underrepresented founders, with a particular interest in inclusive fund design and women-led ventures.