This book tackles the ethical problems of the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" (4IR) and offers readers an overview of the ethical challenges connected to Artificial Intelligence (AI), encryption and the finance industry. It specifically focuses on the situation of females in these industries, from women lawyers, judges, attorneys-at-law, investors and bankers, to portfolio managers, solicitors and civil servants. As the 4IR is more than "just" a technology-driven transformation, this book is a call to policymakers and business leaders to harness new technologies in order to create a more inclusive, human-centered future. It offers many practical cases of proactive change agents, and offers solutions to the ethical challenges in connection with implementing revolutionary disruptive products that often eliminate the intermediary. In addition, the book addresses sustainable finance in startups. In this context, education, training, agility and life-long learning in financial literacy are some of the key solutions highlighted here. The respective contributors supply a diverse range of perspectives, so as to promote a multi-stakeholder approach.

Katharina Miller is a committed non-executive member of various corporate boards (Sustainable Panel of Telefónica, Spain, KOKORO World Trends SICAV, Spain, PANDA GmbH, Germany, and Assurance Services GmbH, Germany), with an extensive legal, operational and risk management experience. She is a qualified lawyer in Germany and Spain with over 10 years of international practice across Western Europe, founding partner of the corporate compliance & ethics legal boutique 3C Compliance, an adjunct professor at various compliance & data protection courses, ambassador of the Global Leadership Academy, Germany, president of European Women Lawyers Association (EWLA) and a delegate for Spain at the G20/W20. Karen Wendt merges 20 years investment banking with social and green economy finance, leadership 4.0, design thinking and ideation. She implements value based decision making, choice architecture and theories of change and advises on Sustainable Development Goals Economics (SDG Economics) in her programme scaling4impact. She is also the president of the SwissFinTechLadies with the mission to close the female funding gap. As an expert at CV Labs' blockchain incubator and F10 accelerator, she helps startups learn about sustainable financial innovation, ecosystem building and scaling their impact.