Michaela Walsh (banker)

Michaela L. Walsh (born in Kansas City, Missouri),[1] financier, banker, founder and first president of Women's World Banking. Walsh was one a handful of women working on Wall Street in the 1950s[2] when she became the first female manager to represent Merrill Lynch in its Beirut, Lebanon office in 1960.[3] In 1970, Walsh became the first woman to make partner at the Wall Street brokerage firm Boettcher and Company.[4] In 1972, Walsh joined the Rockefeller Brothers Fund as a program associate, which led to her attending the 1975 World Conference on Women held in Mexico City, where the idea of Women’s World Banking emerged.[5] In 1978, Walsh served as a project director at the US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment where she consulted on appropriate technology.[6] Walsh became a co-founder of Women’s World Banking and its first president, a position she held from 1980 to 1990.[7]

Education

Walsh attended Manhattanville College for one year before finishing her education at Kansas City University (now UMKC). She attended Hunter College (CUNY), earning a degree in English literature in 1971.[1]

References
  1. "Michaela Walsh Full Biography". Michaelawalsh.com. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  2. Scutts, Joanna (April 19, 2006). "The Woman Who Kicked Down Wall Street's Doors". Time. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
  3. Fraser, Arvonne S.; Tinker, Irene, eds. (2004). Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development. New York: The Feminist Press. p. 115.
  4. Useem, Michael (1998). The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All. New York: Three Rivers Press. p. 216.
  5. Olcott, Joyce (2017). International Women's Year: The Greatest Consciousness-raising Event in History. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 227.
  6. US Office of Technology Assessment (2016). An Assessment of Technology for Local Development. Tallahassee: University Press of Florida.
  7. Hylton, Richard D. (July–August 1989). "Social Ventures". Mother Jones. 14 (6): 46.


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