Roshaneh Zafar

Ms. Roshaneh Zafar is Chief Executive Officer at KASHF Microfinance Bank Ltd. She is also Founder & Managing Director and on the Board of Directors at KASHF Foundation.
She founded the Kashf Foundation, the first specialized microfinance organization in Pakistan in 1996 after a chance meeting with Professor Muhammd Yunus of the Grameen Bank.
Prior to this, Ms. Zafar worked with the World Bank in Islamabad in the Water and Sanitation department for several years.
She was one of the first Ashoka Fellows in Pakistan and has been a Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur since 2004.
She has also been awarded the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, one of Pakistan’s highest civilian awards, by the President of Pakistan for her work in the field of development and women’s empowerment and was also awarded the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2007.
Ms. Zafar is a graduate of the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, USA and also holds a Masters degree in Development Economics from Yale University, USA.