Emmanuelle Javoy leads CGAP’s technical agenda on blended finance, focusing on optimizing the use of blended finance instruments to advance financial inclusion and achieve development outcomes such as women's empowerment, climate change mitigation and adaptation, food security, SME development, and job creation. The project aims to maximize the impact of increasingly scarce catalytic financing.
Before joining CGAP in 2025, Emmanuelle spent a decade analyzing the creditworthiness and social performance of microfinance institutions. She visited more than 60 of them. As Managing Director of Planet Rating, she developed methodologies for credit and social performance ratings. She then worked for 10 years with leading impact asset managers, including ResponsAbility and Symbiotics, where she supervised blended finance funds investing in microfinance institutions, among which REGMIFA.
Throughout her career, Emmanuelle has contributed to numerous CGAP-led initiatives for the inclusive finance sector, including consumer protection, prevention of over-indebtedness, social and impact performance measurement, aid-effectiveness measurement, data infrastructure. She is an active member of the Social Performance Task Force and co-founder of MIMOSA (Microfinance Index for Outreach and Saturation).
Emmanuelle holds a Master’s degree in Management from ESCP Business School in Paris. She is based in Paris and is fluent in English, French, and Spanish.