Nancy M. Barry is the president of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, which she founded in September 2006.
(participant bio). 2011 Social Enterprise Conference. Columbia Business School. Retrieved 2018-03-21. The organization works with corporations, entrepreneurs, and business schools to build business models that engage low-income producers as suppliers, distributors and consumers of products that build income and assets. She was President of

Women's World Banking Women's World Banking is a nonprofit organization that provides strategic support, technical assistance and information to a global network of 55 independent microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks that offer credit and other financial service ...

from 1990 to 2006, expanding the organization's network to reach approximately 20 million low-income entrepreneurs and shaping microfinance worldwide. From 1975 to 1990, Barry worked at the

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Interna ...

, pioneering small enterprise programs and leading work on industry, trade and finance. Barry earned a B.A. in economics at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, in 1971, and an MBA at

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

, in 1975. She is the recipient of a number of awards and honors. She was named to ''

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'' Magazine's " 100 Most Powerful Women in the World" in 2004 and 2005,MacDonald, Elizabeth; Schoenberger, Chana R. (August 15, 2005).
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. ''Forbes''. and was among the 20 people named to the listing of "America's Best Leaders" by ''U.S. News & World Report'' in 2006. Likewise, she also received an Alumni Achievement Award from the Harvard Business School, in 2005, and the Award for Distinguished Leadership from the

Kellogg School of Management The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (also known as Kellogg) is the business school of Northwestern University, a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1908, Kellogg is one of the oldest and most p ...

at Northwestern University, in 2004.Wood, Deborah Leigh (2004).
Nancy Barry wins 2004 Kellogg distinguished leadership award
. ''Kellogg World'' (alumni magazine). Kellogg School of Management. Northwestern University. Retrieved 2018-03-21.

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