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Strategic Planning Center

Jennifer Meehan, Director of Stategic Planning Center

Jorge Highland, Manager, Strategic Planning Center

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Jennifer Meehan
Director, Strategic Planning Center

Jennifer Meehan joined Grameen Foundation in February 2005 as the founding Director of the Capital Markets Group, during which time she led the development and launch of the Growth Guarantees product. She brings over 14 years of experience in banking, specifically project financing with the Chase Manhattan Bank (now JP Morgan Chase), and microfinance. She has been based in Asia for the last 12 years, currently in Hong Kong. Prior to joining Grameen Foundation, she worked extensively with poverty-focused MFIs throughout Asia with CASHPOR, the Asian network of Grameen Bank Replicators, on financial management, business planning and financing. She has also consulted for Calvert Social Investment Foundation, among others, and published a number of articles. She was a founding investor and, until October 2007, served on the Investment Committee of the Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund. She graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University.

 

Jorge Highland
Manager, Strategic Planning Center

Jorge Highland joined Grameen Foundation in June of 2007 as a Technical Program Officer in the Partner Technology Group where he provided operational and strategic advisory services to Grameen Foundation Partners in Latin America and the Caribbean.  During his time with Partner Technology he worked with partner institutions to improve their operations through strategic information management rooted in business process analysis and measurement.  He holds a Master of Science in Foreign Service degree from Georgetown University where he studied Global Commerce and Finance and focused on microfinance and migrant remittances. Prior to his graduate studies, he was a process improvement consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers for four years where he worked with Fortune 500 clients to maintain, enhance, and leverage their operations through information driven processes. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S from Boston College in Operations and Strategic Management.

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