Christian Pennotti is a Senior Director for Market-Based Approaches at CARE. An experienced manager with a record of innovation, Christian’s career has focused on advancing economic development and financial inclusion with a particular focus on gender equity. In his current role, Christian leads the global scale-up of CARE’s proven savings group model, aiming to reach […]

Jessamyn O. Encarnacion is the Inter-Regional Advisor on Gender Statistics for UN Women’s global gender data programme, Making Every Woman and Girl Count, who is instrumental in implementing the technical and substantive work of the programme. Before joining UN Women, she worked for more than 18 years in the Philippines Statistical System. For Jessa, counting […]

Antonique Koning has more than 20 years of experience working on a range of topics related to microfinance and financial inclusion and currently serves as CGAP’s Gender Lead. Antonique has expertise in consumer protection and responsible finance, customer centricity and empowerment. She is also involved in CGAP’s member engagement. Antonique led CGAP’s work on customer protection and […]

Claire Schouten is a Senior Program Officer at the International Budget Partnership working with supreme audit institutions (SAIs), government ministries, civil society actors, international organizations, investors and development partners around the world to advance budget transparency, participation, credibility and accountability norms and practices. Claire is a specialist in social accountability, action learning, capacity development, and […]

Sally Torbert is a Senior Program Officer with the International Budget Partnership (IBP) working on IBP’s Open Budget Survey and Budget Credibility project. Sally is a public sector and governance specialist with expertise in public financial management, service delivery, social accountability, and capacity building. She has previously held positions with the World Bank, DAI, UNCDF, […]

Ms Mino Ramaroson is a rural development specialist and a gender activist from Madagascar. She is a development economist by training and had worked for national and civil society organizations and international coalitions/networks for the last twelve years. She has worked on issues as varied as microfinance, education, rural development, gender and land. She has […]