Brigit Helms is executive director of Miller Center for Global Impact at Santa Clara University, a leader in accelerating social entrepreneurship to end global poverty. For over 30 years, she has developed solutions to social and environmental challenges in 55 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. She has held leadership roles at DAI, the Multilateral Investment Fund (now IDB Lab), McKinsey & Company and the World Bank Group, where she was a founding executive at CGAP, a center of excellence for financial inclusion. Helms is the author of Access for All: Building Inclusive Economic Systems and serves on the boards of the AlphaMundi Foundation and BRAC USA. She earned a PhD and MA in development and agricultural economics from Stanford University, an MA in Latin American studies from Johns Hopkins, and a BS in political science from Santa Clara University.
