Rosita Najmi is a development finance leader and driver of global social, environmental, and economic development innovations and outcomes since 2001 and across 30 countries. Rosita began her career as a social entrepreneur and co- founded a public health international NGO in West Africa. She has gone on to be a digitally fluent global executive and intrapreneur in the corporate world (Micron, PayPal, and UPS), philanthropy (Gates Foundation and Omidyar Network), international development (World Bank), and civil society (Mercy Corps, Accion, and America’s Promise). She brings topical expertise in digital financial inclusion and economic empowerment, gender equality, and climate adaptation and resilience. Her track record includes leading strategy, impact measurement, grantmaking, data and tech for good, impact investing, ESG, humanitarian response, CSR, market-based approaches, policy advocacy, learning, knowledge management, and field building. She has advised and led multi-stakeholder collaborations with governments, the private sector, civil society, and multilateral organizations, including the G7 and G20. She is a champion of collective action and has co-founded and led several groundbreaking global partnerships, coalitions, networks, and alliances, including  FinEquity, Climate Innovation for Adaptation and Resilience Alliance (CIFAR), Data2X Women’s Financial Inclusion Data Partnership, among others. Rosita earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in economics, French, and politics from Wake Forest University. Her TED talk on multilingual leadership has been translated into 13 languages. She is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is based in Washington, D.C.