Sean Kline, Director, Reach Global, joined Freedom from Hunger
in September 2003. Mr. Kline has 15+ years of microfinance, institutional development
and research experience from Africa, Asia and the Balkans. As global Director
of Reach, Sean is helping to shape a breakthrough outreach strategy that will
lower the cost of training organizations to deliver microfinance and lifeskills
training services to rural women and, in doing so, reach millions more women.
Reach is being launched in Mexico, West Africa and India. Prior to joining Freedom
from Hunger, Mr. Kline founded and directed Prizma, a poverty-focused microfinance
institution in Bosnia-Herzegovina now serving more than 20,000 clients. He continues
to serve on Prizma's Board of Directors. Previous to his work with Prizma, he
led research for the Aga Khan Foundation's NGO Resource Centre on a saving and
credit network serving very poor in rural communities in Pakistan. He has also
consulted for development organizations in India, Ghana, Uganda, Bosnia and
Kosovo. Mr. Kline holds a Master's degree in Development Studies with a concentration
in poverty and social policy from the London School of Economics and Political
Science, and a Bachelor's of Science degree in International Development with
a concentration on the informal sector from the University of Minnesota.
Sean recently commented, "The world is full of opportunities to work with others
to make a difference in the lives of poor people and the systems, policies and
infrastructure that serves them. But one has to look for those opportunities
every day wherever they can, like a social entrepreneur. This is the kind of
approach that makes Freedom from Hunger an exciting and entrepreneurial organization
to work with and for."
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