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Innovator in Smart Investing: Michaela Walsh
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Michaela Walsh is activist, scholar, mentor, educator, and author. Her credentials as a pioneer are impressive: she was the first female partner of a brokerage firm, the first female manager of Merrill Lynch International, and the founder and past president of Women's World Banking. Currently, Ms. Walsh is the founder and director of the Global Student Leadership Program, and Women and Community Leadership at Manhattanville College.
Ms. Walsh serves on the Boards of Directors of several organizations including the Synergos Institute, the board of Union Theological Seminary and the Baltic American Partnership, and as a member of the Advisory Board to the Overseas Development Council, the World Resources Institute, the Energy and Education Study Institution and USAID. She is a member of the Committee of 200, the Financial Women's Association and other institutions which support and encourage the advancement of women in the economy and environment. She served as chairperson of the 59th conference of the DPI/NGOs at the United Nations.
- The Innovator in Smart Investing award will be presented by presented by Morgan McKenney, a Board Member of Americans for Informed Democracy. Morgan is the Chief of Staff for Robert Druskin, Chief Operating Officer of Citigroup. Prior to this role, she worked in the Strategy group of the Corporate and Investment Banking division at Citigroup as a Senior Vice President. Before joining Citigroup, Morgan worked in the New York office of London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE), now part of Euronext, working with US-based banks, hedge funds and other trading firms to grow exchange volumes. Morgan received a BA in Computer Science from Amherst College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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