Staff & Contact

Aishwarya is the Director of the Microsavings and Payments Innovation Inititative at Yale University. Aishwarya has joined Yale and the team at Innovations for Poverty Action in New Haven in June 2011. In her years at the Microsoft Research Labs in Bangalore Aishwarya gained extensive experience leading projects on the role of technology  in enabling social and economic development and poverty alleviation. She has an undergraduate degree in Economics from Wellesley College and a Master's degree in Public Administration and International Development (MPA/ID) from the Kennedy School at Harvard University.

 

Beniamino oversees the development of new savings projects and the outreach to local researchers under the Microsavings and Payments Innovation Initiative.  He joined IPA in 2008 for a brief experience in Mali and then moved to the Washington DC office to manage two Village Savings and Loans Associations evaluations in East Africa as well as a series of ICT-related projects in Latin America on topics ranging from sexual education, financial literacy to environmental campaigns. He holds a Master's degree in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor in political science from LUISS University in Rome.

 

Alex works on project development at IPA, with a focus on new projects under the Microsavings and Payments Innovation Initiative.  She joined IPA in May 2010.  Alex graduated with a Master's degree in Development and International Business Diplomacy from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.  At Georgetown, she concentrated on economic development and worked at FINCA International in their Greater Middle East Unit.  She also has an undergraduate degree in political science and teacher preparation from Princeton University.

Henriette works on projects development and management under the Microsavings and Payments Innovation Initiative. She holds a Master degree in International and Development Economics from University of Auvergne in France, and a Master in Administration from IESEG School of Management in Lille. She joined IPA Peru in 2009 as a Project Associate to coordinate two impact evaluations of microcredit related to gender issues and social network for a Peruvian microfinance institution. In 2010, she participated briefly to the implementation of the evaluation of an agricultural lending project in Mali.

 

Angela works on data analysis of several projects under the Microsavings and  Payments Innovations Initiative. She joined Innovations for Poverty Action in 2009 as a Project Associate in Colombia to coordinate the evaluation of an internet-based sexual education program. She graduated from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, with a bachelor degree in Economics in 2008, and Business Administration in 2009.