Salah Goss

Salah Goss is an Associate Program Officer in the Financial Services for the Poor initiative at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Salah works on mobile money projects, savings-led community managed microfinance, and financial sector deepening in Africa, South East Asia and the Caribbean. Prior to joining the foundation, she worked on several financial service projects for Development Alternatives, Inc. As a Financial Analyst at Sanabel Microfinance Network of Arab Countries, in Cairo, Egypt, she supported microfinance institutions from twelve Middle Eastern and North African countries and contributed to The MIX Benchmarking Arab Microfinance 2006. Currently, in her role at the foundation, she draws on her past experience as Grants Administrator for the West Africa Regional Office of the Soros Foundation to use innovative grantmaking tools such as challenge funds and prizes. She is a graduate of The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and is proficient in French and speaks beginning Arabic.

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