Join Net Impact and international development consulting firm, EA Consultants for an evening of intimate discussion at our first small dinner discussion of the year!
About EA Consultants:
EA Consultants is dedicated to supporting initiatives that facilitate access to finance, markets and social protection for low income segments of the world’s population. We combine research and practice to ensure that our work is informed by an analysis and understanding of markets and client needs. Our goal is that our research and work may lead to new ways of thinking and new practice that can be transformative to benefit all segments of society.
About our guest:
Jennifer Powers, Microfinance and International Development Consultant

Jennifer has 12 years of experience in microfinance, investment banking and financial sector development. Over the last 5 years, Ms. Powers has worked on a number of technical assistance programs for MFIs in Latin America, Tanzania and Eastern Europe funded by organizations such as the IFC, IDB, USAID, EFSE and the ILO. These projects have involved quantitative data analysis; qualitative client feedback tools such as interviews and focus groups; MFI diagnostics; financial modeling and strategic advisory. Her most recent work has been focused on supporting women’s small business growth. She is currently working on an evaluation of a program financed by the MIF to support entrepreneurial capacity in women’s businesses in Latin America.

Ms. Powers has also authored two recent MIF commissioned research pieces looking at constraints to women’s business growth, “A Business to Call Her Own: Identifying, Analyzing and Overcoming Constraints to Women’s Small Businesses in Latin America and the Caribbean” and “Pure Perseverance: A Study of Women’s Small Businesses in Colombia”.

Before joining EA Consultants, Ms. Powers was an Investment Officer with Deutsche Bank Social Investments where she helped manage their microfinance debt funds. Her work in development finance has built upon her experience as an investment banker in Merrill Lynch’s financial institutions group. Ms. Powers holds a Masters from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelors of Economics from Duke University. She speaks English and Spanish fluently.