Private Finance for Sustainable Development Conference-2020

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Nancy Lee

Senior Policy Fellow
Center for Global Development

Presentation

Nancy Lee is a Senior Policy Fellow at the Center for Global Development and a Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Her work at CGD focuses on the challenges of mobilizing private finance for development. Previously, she was Deputy CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, an independent U.S. aid agency that fights poverty through country compacts supporting inclusive growth. Earlier, Dr. Lee was CEO of the Multilateral Investment Fund (now the IDB Lab) at the Inter-American Development Bank, the Bank’s laboratory for private sector-led development and a key impact investor in the region. Dr. Lee also served at the U.S. 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. She holds a B.A. in economics from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. in economics from Tufts University.
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