Putting Women at the Center of Building Back Better in Haiti

Isobel Coleman is a Senior Fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and Director of the Council's Women and Foreign Policy program as well as its program in Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy. Her latest book, Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women Are Transforming the Middle East, was published by Random House in spring 2010. Prior to joining the Council on Foreign Relations, Coleman was CEO of a health care services company and a partner in the financial institutions practice of McKinsey & Co. in New York.

Mary Ellen Iskenderian is President and CEO of Women's World Banking (WWB), the world's largest network of microfinance institutions and banks, which provides technical services and strategic support to 40 top-performing microfinance institutions and banks in 28 developing countries. Prior to joining WWB, she worked for 17 years in senior management at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank.