Wendy Teleki

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ABOUT WENDY TELEKI

Wendy Jagerson Teleki heads the secretariat of the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) housed in the World Bank, which aims to break down barriers and increase financing for women entrepreneurs in over 60 developing countries around the world. She has spent her career spearheading efforts to help private and public institutions in emerging markets expand financing and support for small businesses and women entrepreneurs. With the International Finance Corporation, she led programs to privatize and build the small business sector in Ukraine in the early 1990s, developed solutions for SMEs in Indonesia during the Asian Financial Crisis, launched innovative SME finance and advisory offerings and pioneered blended finance efforts. She is the co-author of Rebalance: How Women Lead, Parent, Partner and Thrive. She is a wife, mother of three teens, and daughter of entrepreneurs, and the editor of the Last Leather Helmets, an extraordinary tale of an everyman living through extraordinary moments of the 20th century. She has an MA in International Economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business. Wendy finds balance as a rowing and high-school theater fan, a universal design aficionado, an aspiring gardener and furniture-maker and walking (and talking) with others through forests, mountains and cities.