Joanna Romero is a gender finance consultant at WFX, an Asian Development Bank initiative, where she drives gender lens investing and technical assistance. She has more than 15 years of development finance experience. At the IFC/World Bank Group, she worked at the intersection between financial inclusion of SMEs, women’s economic empowerment, and climate finance, and advised senior management of partner financial institutions. She has a Master of Arts degree in International Trade & Investment Policy from George Washington University.