NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Heidi McAnnally-Linz is associate director of policy and communications at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA). She’s responsible for IPA’s policy outreach and communications strategy and works in collaboration with IPA’s 20 country programs to develop policy strategies, craft policy-focused products, and lead events for policy audiences. She came to IPA with experience working with local decision-makers in the education and microenterprise sectors in Latin America and helped launch and administer the Senior Fellows Program at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University. She earned a master’s degree in international policy and management from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Haverford College.