Accion International - Senior Vice President Of International Operations
http://www.accion.org

United States of America

After a 15 year career in banking with Citigroup, HSBC and JPMorgan, Rosalind founded and developed two micro-finance organisations:Fundusz Mikro, Poland, in 1994 and Street(UK) in 1999, and mostrecently joined Accion International in 2005 as Senior Vice President,International Operations, to develop its activities in Asia, Africa,Middle East and Eastern Europe.During its first 5 years, Fundusz Mikro made over 40,000 loans, andbecame fully self-sustaining by 1999. In the UK, in addition tofounding Street(UK) and Street(North East), Rosalind also contributedto the development of a UK micro-finance sector, by creating a single,multi-user loan administration service for the sector, introducingstandardised performance measurement indicators and promoting andinfluencing key legal, regulatory, tax and funding improvements togovernment policy. Her recent publications include Self-Employedpeople in the Informal Economy: Cheats or Contributors? (2004) andStreet(UK)  Lessons Learned from its First Three Years Operations(2004).Rosalind has also co-founded, advised or served on the boards of CGAP,the Micro-finance Centre for Central and Eastern Europe, the CommunityDevelopment Finance Association of the UK and the European MicrofinanceNetwork for Western Europe, as well as several other socialenterprises. She holds an undergraduate degree in Human Sciences fromOxford University, an MBA from the Wharton School of Finance, and an MAin Latin American studies, as a Fellow of the Lauder Institute,University of Pennsylvania. In 2000, Rosalind was awarded the OfficersCross of the Order of Merit of Poland for her contributions to povertyalleviation and economic development.