About Theresa Wilson

As a mission-oriented investment professional, Theresa is passionate about leveraging market-based solutions and innovative partnerships to accelerate economic development, alleviate poverty, and facilitate social justice. Today Theresa assists a variety of clients with building robust and resilient business operations to agilely meet growth opportunities. She also works with clients to development, refine, and monitor impact investment portfolios.

Prior she worked with a niche SEC registered investment advisory firm to managed internal operations and conducted investment due diligence and client portfolio management. Theresa also supported a $50M impact portfolio at Omidyar Network, worked in SME Private Equity at the IFC, supported the Market Dynamics team at Results for Development, and served as a Kiva Fellow working to launch Kiva’s US-based micro finance platform. Before Kiva, she served in the U.S. Peace Corps in the Republic of Georgia and Costa Rica.

Theresa holds an MBA and MA in Global Affairs from Yale University where she was a Forte Fellow, Executive Director of the Yale Journal of International Affairs, and co-chair of the Yale Philanthropy Conference. She earned her BS in finance and in interdisciplinary business management with a marketing minor, magna cum laude, from Miami University.