Global Development | CSR | FinTech | Impact Investing | ESG | Data for Good | Financial Inclusion | Gender Equality | Climate Adaptation and Resilience | Economic Equity and Empowerment | Philanthropy

Rosita is a development finance leader and driver of global social, environmental, and economic development innovations and outcomes since 2001. Rosita began her career as a social entrepreneur and co-founded a public health international NGO in West Africa and served as its executive director. She has gone on to be a digitally fluent executive and intra-preneur in the ■ corporate world (PayPal and UPS) ■ philanthropy (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Omidyar Network) ■ international development (World Bank) ■ civil society (Mercy Corps, Accion, America's Promise) Rosita earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and BA in Economics, French, and Politics from Wake Forest University. Her TED talk on multilingual leadership has been translated in 13 languages. She is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. ♦ Impact Areas ♦ • Financial inclusion and economic empowerment, especially fintech • Gender equality • Climate equity, adaptation, and resilience • People and Team Management ♦ Expertise ♦ • Strategy • Impact Measurement, Evaluation, and Learning • Philanthropy • Data for Good • Tech for Good • Impact investing • ESG (including DEI) • CSR (including market-based approaches) • Policy advocacy and field building • Technical assistance and capacity building • Coalition, network, and alliance building (including with G7 and G20) • Public private partnerships • Knowledge creation, management, and dissemination • Field and primary research (design and implementation) ♦ Geography ♦ Africa, South Asia, the Pacific, Central Europe, and East Asia, including experiences in Benin, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mongolia, Philippines, Samoa, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, among others ♦ Boards ♦ • ODI Global (Finance, Risk and Audit Committee) (since 2024) • ODI Global Advisory (since 2024) • Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION (since 2021) ♦ Past Boards ♦ • WRI (Corporate Consultative Group) (2021-2022) • Tahirih Justice Center (Chair of Development Committee) (2019-2025) • International Center for Tax and Development (2018-2024) • Better than Cash Alliance (2012-2020) • Money2020 Start Up Pitch (2017-2020) • Data2X (Women's Financial Inclusion Data Partnership) (2016-2023) • FinEquity (2016-2020) • Project Bokonon (Founding Chair) (2001-2005)