Home Agenda Register Resources Details	Mary Ellen Iskenderian President and CEO, Women’s World Banking Ms. Iskenderian became President and Chief Executive Officer of Women's World Banking (WWB) in September 2006. Ms.Iskenderian, who has held numerous leadership positions at the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group (IFC), brings to WWB over twenty years of experience in building financial systems globally, in particular in Asia, Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. Ms. Iskenderian will lead WWB’s efforts in developing and delivering a wide array of products and services that meet the needs of low-income women and their households through the WWB network of microfinance institutions and banks. Ms. Iskenderian’s leadership positions at the IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank and the largest investor in emerging markets worldwide, included Director of Partnership Development, Director of Global Financial Markets Portfolio and Director of the South Asia Regional Department. She also sits on the boards of directors of the National Bank of Commerce in Tanzania and ShoreCap International, an important equity and loan fund for microfinance. She has held corporate directorship positions with a number of organizations including Banco Caja Social, Confisura S.A. and the Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation. Ms. Iskenderian holds an MBA degree from the Yale School of Organization And Management and a BS in International Economics from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Women’s World Bank WWB is a global not-for-profit financial institution devoted to increasing poor women’s economic access, participation and power. Founded in 1979, WWB is at the forefront of microfinance globally. The WWB global network of over 50 microfinance institutions and banks provide financial services to over 23 million low income women and men in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, North America and the Middle East.
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