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

Mary Ellen Iskenderian is president and CEO of Women’s World Banking. She previously worked for 17 years at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank. She’s a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as a member of the Women’s Forum of New York. She serves as an advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative, is a judge for the annual Financial Times/International Finance Corporation Sustainable Banking Awards and sits on the board of directors of Fair Trade USA. She earned a master’s degree in business administration from the Yale School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in international economics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.