Biography

Group: 

SWWB Board

Role: 

Secretary

Clara Serra de Akerman is a founding member of Fundación WWB Colombia in Cali, one of the most successful microcredit institutions in Latin America, and has been the organization's President since 1992. Ms. Akerman is a partner of Inverco Ltda, a design and construction firm, where she worked for ten years as legal, administrative and business advisor. She earned her law degree from San Buenaventura University in Cali, with a major in business law, and studied financial management at Javeriana University and Universidad del Valle in Cali, and at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ms. Akerman has been a consultant to microcredit organizations in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, and has worked closely with the Colombian Government and Women's World Banking Network on policy change for microfinance in Colombia. She is co-author of the book "The Miracle of a Working Class Economy: Microfinance, a Development Vehicle," published by Feriva S.A., 2004. Ms. Akerman has served on the WWB Board of Trustees since 2000.

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