Mary Ellen Iskenderian is President and CEO of Women's World Banking since September 2006.
Prior to joining WWB, Mary Ellen was a senior manager at the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group and held leadership positions including Director of Partnership Development, Director of Global Financial Markets Portfolio and Director of the South Asia Regional Department. She currently sits on the advisory boards of the Dignity Fund and Kiva. Prior to joining WWB, she held numerous corporate directorship positions at such institutions as ShoreCap International, an important equity and loan fund for microfinance; Banco Caja Social; Corfinsura S.A.; and the Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation.
Ms. Iskenderian received an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a B.S. in International Economics from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
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“A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“I know that each stage is not going to last forever. I used to think that when he was little. Whenever he was in a bad stage I thought that he was going to be like that for the rest of his life and that Id better do something to shape him up. When he was in a good state, I thought he was going to be a perfect child and I would never have to worry; he was always going to stay that way.”
—Anonymous Parent of An Eight-Year-Old. As quoted in Between Generations by Ellen Galinsky, ch. 4 (1981)