Sevi Simavi

Sevi Simavi is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women. With over ten years of global public policy and financial sector development experience gained in over 50 countries across the globe through work at the World Bank Group and the private sector, Sevi's expertise includes business and financial regulation, institution and capacity building, women’s entrepreneurship and results measurement. She has advised governments, central banks and non-governmental institutions in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Middle East on investment climate reform, access to finance for SMEs and women’s economic empowerment. Sevi has initiated and rolled out innovative programmes and functions from the ground up. She has published extensively on women’s economic empowerment, access to finance and business enabling environments.


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