Deborah leads CFI&#8217;s governance and risk management portfolio, including the Board Leadership for Impact Program and the Africa Board Fellowship Program, which are dedicated to strengthening governance and improving risk management and strategy for CEOs and board directors of social enterprises and financial institutions. She also directs the Financial Inclusion Equity Council (FIEC), a membership organization of private entities making equity investments in financial institutions in the developing world.
Deborah is co-editor of The Commercialization of Microfinance: Balancing Business and Development, and the co-author of Alchemists for the Poor: NGOs as Financial Institutions. Prior to joining Accion, she was a banking specialist at the World Bank and a commercial banker. She serves on the boards of the Calmeadow Foundation and Root Capital, and Root’s Peruvian subsidiary, ACCDER.
Deborah is a graduate of Georgetown University and holds an MBA from Babson College. She speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese.

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Deborah Drake will be discussing the forthcoming "Governance Guidelines for Innovative Companies" paper with Jasper Veel of FMO.

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<a href="/bio/deborah-drake">Deborah Drake</a> will be discussing the forthcoming “Governance Guidelines for Innovative Companies Serving the Base of the Pyramid,” a collaboration between FMO and CFI (originally published 2005, revised in 2019). We look forward to receiving input on this draft at/following this event.

13th Annual DFI Corporate Governance Conference

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