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Women's World Banking was born out of an idea conceived during the first United Nations World Conference on Women, held in Mexico City in 1975 to coincide with the International Women's Year and to mark the start of the "UN Decade for Women" (1976–1985). The Mexico City conference was convened by the United Nations General Assembly to focus ...
Michaela Walsh (banker) Michaela L. Walsh (born in Kansas City, Missouri), [ 1] financier, banker, founder and first president of Women's World Banking. Walsh was one a handful of women working on Wall Street in the 1950s [ 2] when she became the first female manager to represent Merrill Lynch in its Beirut, Lebanon office in 1960. [ 3]
Mary Ellen Iskenderian. Mary Ellen Iskenderian is president and CEO of Women's World Banking, the world's largest network of microfinance institutions and banks. [1] She has written columns in Forbes magazine and The Wall Street Journal [2] and is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review blog. [3]
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. [ 5 ] The World Bank is the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association ...
She was President of Women's World Banking from 1990 to 2006, expanding the organization's network to reach approximately 20 million low-income entrepreneurs and shaping microfinance worldwide. [3] [4] From 1975 to 1990, Barry worked at the World Bank, pioneering small enterprise programs and leading work on industry, trade and finance. [3] [4]
4. Esther Afua Ocloo (born Esther Afua Nkulenu; 18 April 1919 – 8 February 2002) was a Ghanaian businesswoman and pioneer of microlending, [1] a programme of making small loans in order to stimulate businesses. [2][3][4] She was a co-founder of Women's World Banking in 1976, with Michaela Walsh and Ela Bhatt. Ocloo served as its first chair ...
Ela Ramesh Bhatt (7 September 1933 – 2 November 2022) was an Indian cooperative organiser, activist and Gandhian, [1] who founded the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA) in 1972, and served as its general secretary from 1972 to 1996. She was the chancellor of the Gujarat Vidyapith from 7 March 2015 to 19 October 2022. [2]
As managing director, she had oversight responsibility for the World Bank’s $81 billion operational portfolio in Africa, South Asia, Europe, and Central Asia. Okonjo-Iweala spearheaded several World Bank initiatives to assist low-income countries during the 2008–2009 food crises and later during the financial crisis.