Program Director, AgriFinMercy Corps
Leesa Shrader is Director of the AgriFin Accelerate and AgriFin Digital Farmer Programs at Mercy Corps, which represent $30 million of innovation funding from the MasterCard Foundation and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to expand smallholder farmer access to technology-enabled financial and information services in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ms. Shrader joined AgriFin from CGAP, where she served as the Senior Digital Financial Services Expert for Asia. She has over 25 years’ global experience working in financial inclusion, agriculture and technology for development with leading banks, mobile network operators and development institutions such as the World Bank, GiZ and Women’s World Banking in 20 countries across Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia