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Geetha Nagarajan
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Dr. Nagarajan is Research Director at the IRIS Center, serving as Economist and Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist. She is currently the Research Director for the Financial Services Assessment project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Project Director for the Islamic Microfinance pilot project to develop Sharia-compliant financial services. She is also Monitoring and Evaluation Director for a USAID project to support orphans and vulnerable children with economic strengthening initiatives.
Dr. Nagarajan is a highly experienced researcher, advisory assistance provider, and author of several peer reviewed publications. She has worked in 21 developing countries in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. Dr. Nagarajan has evaluated economic development programs, and conducted field based research to identify causes of poverty to design policy and programs to address them, especially in conflict and disaster affected environments. An expert in small and micro-enterprise development and microfinance, she has a wide range of experience in developing, measuring, and implementing activities to ensure program effectiveness to reach the target population. Before joining IRIS, she was consulting for USAID, Asian Development Bank, World Bank, Inter American Development Bank, ILO, FAO, UNDP, Ford Foundation, and Citigroup foundation. |
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Expertise
Small Enterprise Development
Design
Monitoring and Evaluation
Economic Development
Conflict and disaster management |
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Education
Ph.D.(Ag. Economics), The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 1992.
M.Sc. and B.Sc, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India, 1986. |
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Previous Positions
Independent Consultant – Development Finance (2002 - 2007).
Adjunct Professor, American University, Washington, D.C. (2002 - 2007)
Program Manager, The Microfinance Exchange (1999 - 2001)
Research Specialist, Dept. of Ag. Economics, The Ohio State University (1992 - 1999). |
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Selected Publications
Nagarajan, Geetha and Richard L. Meyer, Dec. 2006, “Rural Finance Today: Advances and Challenges”, Finance for the Poor, Manila: Asian Development Bank, Vol. 8, No. 4, December 2006. www.adb.org/documents/periodicals/microfinance.
Nagarajan, Geetha, 2004, “Microbanking with Adolescent Youth”, Finance for the Poor, Manila: Asian Development Bank, Vol. 5, No. 4, December 2004, www.adb.org/documents/periodicals/microfinance
Nagarajan, Geetha, 2003, “Microfinance in Conflict Affected Environments”, in Jobs After War: A Critical Challenge in the Peace and Reconstruction Puzzle , Ed. Eugenia Date-Bah, August 2003, Geneva: ILO. www-ilo-mirror.cornell.edu/public/english/employment/recon/crisis/publ/index.htm.
Nagarajan, Geetha, 2003, “Poverty Outreach in C&EE and NIS Countries by Microfinance Institutions”, The State of Microfinance in C&EE and NIS, Eds. Sarah Forster, Seth Greene and Justyna Pytkowska, Washington, D.C.: CGAP, June 2003; http://www.mfc.org.pl/doc/Publication/Mapping/chapter5.
Nagarajan, Geetha and Richard L. Meyer, 2002, “Financial and Advisory Services to SMEs in Transition Countries: Trends and Challenges”, in Private Finance for Human Development, Eds. Almud Weitz and J.D.Von Pischke, New York: UNDP, 2002. ttp://www.microfinancegateway.org/files/18101_Nagarajan7fin.doc
Nagarajan, Geetha, 2000, “Productivity Drivers and Trends”, The MicroBanking Bulletin, April 2001, Vol. 6, pp. 44-49.; Case Study on BASIX, India and BURO-Tangail, Bangladesh, The MicroBanking Bulletin, Vol. 5, September 2000. www.themix.org
Meyer, Richard L. and Geetha Nagarajan, 2000, Rural Financial Markets in Asia: Policies, Paradigms and Performance, Manila: Asian Development Bank and Hongkong: Oxford University Press, August 2000. www.adb.org. |
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| Last updated on: 11/20/2009 |
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