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Washington, DC-based Grameen Foundation has Appointed Hillary Miller-Wise as Vice President of Information Services
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Grameen Foundation helps the world's poorest – especially women – improve their lives and escape poverty by providing them with access to appropriate financial services, life-changing information and unique income-generating opportunities. Working directly with the poor, as well as the organizations that support them, we make a real difference in the lives of those who have been left behind. Grameen Foundation provides microfinance institutions (MFIs) in poor communities with access to the capital they need to make microloans and to offer other financial services to those working to develop or expand a small business. In many of the poorest regions in the world, micro-business creation is the only way for families to escape poverty and build a better future for their children.
About the Person
Hillary Miller-Wise serves as Vice President at Grameen Foundation where she oversees strategy, business development and operations of the Information Services division, which provides relevant, actionable market and health information to rural households by leveraging mobile technology. Prior to this role, she spent five years at TechnoServe, where she first served as Country Director of TechnoServe's operations in Tanzania. In that function, she forged a partnership with Vodafone Group to design and launch smart logistics and mobile finance solutions in the agricultural sector in Tanzania, Mozambique and Kenya to increase access to markets for smallholder farmers. She also designed and implemented a partnership with Tigo to provide market information to smallholder farmers in Tanzania. At TechnoServe, she also served as Practice Lead of the organization's ICT4D Practice Group. Previously in her career, Ms. Miller-Wise was a senior consultant at Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI). In that role, she served as lead consultant on a project to develop the first mobile-enabled loan processing system of a microfinance bank in South America. Ms. Miller-Wise holds an MBA from INSEAD, where she was the recipient of the Social Entrepreneurship Scholarship, and an MA in International Economics from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
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