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Nancy Lee
Center for Global Development
Director for Sustainable Development Finance
Description
Nancy Lee is Director of the Sustainable Development Finance program at the Center for Global Development and a senior policy fellow. Her work focuses on the role and performance of multilateral development banks and development finance institutions, mobilizing private development and climate finance, debt sustainability and restructuring, public-private infrastructure finance, and gender lens investing.
Previously, she was the deputy CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), the US aid agency that funds compacts in the poorest countries to reduce poverty through growth. She was also the CEO of the Multilateral Investment Fund (now the IDB Lab) at the Inter-American Development Bank, a key impact investor supporting innovation in the region.
Dr. Lee also served at the US Treasury Department, where she was deputy assistant secretary for the Western Hemisphere and for Europe and Eurasia. She led Treasury’s work to put financial inclusion, SME finance, and women’s access to finance on the G20 agenda. Dr. Lee holds a PhD and an MA in economics from Tufts University and a BA in economics from Wellesley College.
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