Elizabeth Littlefield

Director and CEO. Elizabeth is a director of the World Bank and the chief executive officer of CGAP. Previously she was the managing director of JP Morgan’s Emerging Markets Capital Markets in London. As such, she was responsible for all bond offerings, structured financing, and credit ratings for emerging markets in Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. 

She and her team executed more than 80% of all bond issues in these regions in the 1990s. Earlier, Elizabeth spent a year and a half living in West and Central Africa establishing and advising microfinance institutions. She has served on many corporate and nonprofit boards and founded several nonprofit organizations. A U.S. and U.K. citizen, she is a graduate of Brown University in Rhode Island and also studied at the École Nationale de Sciences Politiques in Paris.