Mary Iskenderian

Womens World Banking Ghana SVGS & Loans Co. Ltd. provides financial services to entrepreneurs, with a special attention to women. The firm’s services include V-Banking, Western Union, MoneyGram, Tigo Cash, Automated Teller Machine (ATM) services, and customer service. It has a network of microfinance institutions and banks that work to help low-income entrepreneurs. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Accra, Ghana.

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

FINCA Microfinance Bank Ltd. provides microfinance services. It offers loans such as kamyab kashtkar karza, barwaqt sunehri karza, maal maweshi qarza, kamyab karobari qarza, zarai karza and enterprise lending, and savings such as sahoolat current account, mohafiz term deposit, tahafuz term deposit, rozana munafa and aitemad bachat account, and financial services and grievance commissioner cell for overseas pakistanis. The company was founded by Roshaneh Zafar in June 2008 and is headquartered in Lahore, Pakistan.

Fair Trade USA provides farmers and workers producing fair trade certified goods services. It educates consumers, brings new manufacturers and retailers into the fair trade system, and provides farmers with tools, training and resources to thrive as international businesspeople. The company was founded in 1940 and headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Women’s World Banking operates as a global non-profit devoted to giving more low-income women access to the financial tools and resources essential to their security and prosperity. The firm specializes in global microfinance network and financial inclusion. The company was founded by Ela Ramesh Bhatt, Michaela Walsh and Esther Afua Ocloo in 1979 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Women’s World Banking Capital Partners LP (Women’s World Banking Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Women’s World Banking founded in 2012. The firm is headquartered in New York.

International Finance Corp. (IFC) operates as a global development institution. It is an organization that fosters sustainable economic growth in developing countries by financing private sector investment, mobilizing capital in the international financial markets and providing advisory services to businesses and governments. The firm operates through three segments: Investment Services, Treasury Services and Advisory Services. The Investment Services segment offers loans, equities, debt securities, trade and supply chain finance and client risk management services. The Treasury Services segment consists of the borrowing, liquid asset management, asset and liability management, and client risk management activities. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation (dba Hewlett Foundation) is a nonpartisan, private charitable foundation headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The foundation was founded in 1966 by engineer and entrepreneur William R. Hewlett and his wife, Flora Lamson Hewlett, with their eldest son, Walter Hewlett. Hewlett Foundation provides grants to a broad range of institutions across the globe to help people build better lives.