Kathryn Imboden is the Vice-Chair of SIFEM. Alongside her active involvement in the SIFEM Board, she served for 15 years as a Senior Financial Sector Specialist at the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a research and policy platform on financial inclusion housed at the World Bank. In this position, she focused on the engagement of global standard-setting bodies in financial inclusion. In earlier years, she spent 20 years with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), where she led SDC’s macroeconomic and financial sector work. Between the time at SDC and at the World Bank, she held financial sector policy related positions at Women’s World Banking, United Nations Capital Development Fund, and the Aga Khan Foundation.