- Nancy Barry
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Nancy M. Barry is the founder and president of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty. Launched in September 2006, ESP works with major corporations, emerging entrepreneurs, and leading business schools to build business models that engage low-income producers as suppliers, distributors and consumers of products that build income and assets. Nancy is recognized as a global leader in building finance and enterprise systems that work for the majority. She was President of Women's World Banking from 1990 to 2006, expanding the WWB network to reach nearly 20 million low income entrepreneurs and shaping microfinance worldwide. From 1975 to 1990, Ms. Barry worked at the World Bank, pioneering small enterprise programs and leading work on industry, trade and finance. Ms. Barry has a B.A. in economics from Stanford University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and has received various awards, including recognition as one of Forbes Magazine's 100 Most Powerful Women in the World in 2004 and 2005, and U.S. News and World Report 20 America's Best Leaders in 2006. "[1][2][3]
References
- ^ Alumni.HBS.edu
- ^ "Thinking Big, Lending Small", Michael Useem, U.S. News and World Report, October 30, 2006.
- ^ Forbes "The World's Most Powerful Women"
External links
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- Stanford University alumni
- Harvard Business School alumni
- World Bank people
- American bankers
- American women in business
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