Eriko Ishikawa

Biography

• Eriko is Global Head of the Inclusive Business Models Group at the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group. Her main responsibility is helping private sector companies to integrate the people at the Base of the Economic Pyramid (BOP) into their value chain as suppliers and consumers.
• Eriko has written extensively on inclusive business and established the IFC Annual Inclusive Business Forum (2010-2013), a multi-stakeholder meeting of private and public sector development practitioners focusing on business solutions for development.
• Eriko leads the World Bank Group team to establish Inclusive Business as a focal topic for the G20 Development Working Group, currently under the China Presidency.
• Eriko has provided innovative financing, technical assistance and advisory services to emerging market companies to strengthen their value chains and integrate the BOP into their business models.
• Prior to joining IFC, she was VP at Citicorp in NYC. She was born in Japan, grew up in Brazil, and has been educated in the US, with an MBA from Stanford and an AB and MEd from Harvard. She is an avid scuba diver.
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