Boulder Institute of Microfinance

 Kate joined CGAP (the global microfinance resource center) in September 2006 as Senior Advisor for Policy, Outreach and Aid Effectiveness. She is acting director of the savings team and is carrying out several special projects focused on issues including: performance and policy issues of state-owned retail financial institutions; the next generation of consumer protection and market conduct issues for microfinance; and strategies forcombining livelihoods/enterprise support and financial services to benefit poorer clients. From 1998 Kate served as Director of the Microenterprise Development office at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), leading support to USAID overseas programs that invest over $200 million annually in microfinance and microenterprise initiatives in 70+ countries.

From 1986-98 Kate was a senior manager with Self-Help in North Carolina, the largest nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) in the US. From 1994-95 she led the start-up of the federal CDFI Fund, to invest in CDFIs and provide incentives for mainstream financial institutions to boost community development lending. From 1978-86, she developed and led international and domestic enterprise, finance, rural development and women?s programs for the Ford Foundation in its headquarters and West Africa office in Lagos. Kate is a development economist, with a Masters in Public and International Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University.