Through previous roles at the World Bank Group and International Finance Corporation, Griselda Gay Santos has more than 25 years of experience in investment and credit operations, operational risks, IT and advisory services. She retired from the World Bank Group in 2019.
Gay is a financial inclusion advocate and the chair of the Financial Inclusion Committee of the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines and a Trustee of Fintech Alliance Philippines. She worked in various USAID projects as principal specialist in SME finance, E-Commerce and Financial Inclusion. She sits as an independent director in fintech entities in the Philippines. She developed the new financial literacy training program of the Philippines’ conditional cash transfer program. She authored studies in SME Finance, Insurtech and Social Enterprises and a periodic writer in major newspapers in the Philippines. She holds a MBA from the Johns Hopkins University and joined Water.org in 2021.
