Heather Mae Kipnis is the Women’s Entrepreneurship Product Lead for IFC's Gender Secretariat. In this role, she is the global technical specialist advising project teams, clients, and partners on how to close gender gaps in access to finance, markets, and non-financial services. Heather brings over 15 years of experience in international development and financial services across Latin America & the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East. Previously, she was a Global Gender Specialist with IFC’s Banking on Women (BOW) Program.

She has an MBA in Global Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management, and a Bachelors of Science in Decision and Information Sciences from University of Florida.