The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Financial Inclusion Portion of Gender Equality Strategy

Liz Kellison is the Gender Lead for the Financial Services for the Poor (FSP) team. Liz leads the team’s work to increase low-income women’s access to and usage of digital financial services. The FSP team works with a wide range of public and private sector partners to foster the development of digital payment systems – such as mobile money – that can reach hundreds of millions of people with the financial tools they need to mitigate risks and capture opportunities to move out of poverty.  
 
Prior to joining the foundation, Liz was instrumental in launching and managing WebJunction.org, a learning portal for public library staff run by OCLC, the world's largest nonprofit library cooperative. Before WebJunction, Liz was Vice President of Business Development at Quisic, an online business and management education company, serving top business schools and global 1000 corporations. Liz earned a BA in Russian Language and Literature from Williams College, and an MA in Slavic Literature from UNCChapel Hill, and struggles to speak Russian as well as she used to.