CGAP
Maha Bahou is the CEO of Jordan Payments & Clearing Company (JoPACC) since June 2018, bringing extensive experience in finance and management. Concurrently, Maha serves as a board member for CGAP and Karandaaz Pakistan, both since June 2017. Prior to the current role, Maha was the Executive Director at the Central Bank of Jordan from October 1987 to June 2018 and has also held the position of University Lecturer at the University of Jordan from June 2009 to March 2013, along with serving as a Senior Management Consultant at Philadelphia Consulting during the same period. Educational credentials include a Bachelor’s degree and a Master's degree in Banking and Finance from the University of Jordan, as well as studies in Financial Inclusion from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
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CGAP
CGAP works at the frontier of inclusive finance to test solutions, spark innovation, generate evidence, and share insights. Our knowledge enables public and private stakeholders to scale solutions that make financial ecosystems meet the needs of poor, vulnerable, and underserved people and of micro and small enterprises (MSEs), including through advancing women’s economic empowerment. As a global public good, our independent research and analysis is available to all. Housed at the World Bank, CGAP is a global partnership of more than 30 leading development organizations that works to advance the lives of people living in poverty, especially women, through financial inclusion.