Jeroo Billimoria
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20 July 1965 in Mumbai, India |
| Occupation | Social entrepreneur founder & managing director of Child and Youth Finance International Founder of Aflatoun |
Jeroo Billimoria (born 20 July 1965) is a pioneering social entrepreneur and the founder of several award-winning international NGOs. Her innovative approach to managing social ventures and bringing them to global scale has earned her fellowships with Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, the Skoll Foundation and the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. Additionally, her work has been featured in Business Week, The Economist and several books. Her most recent initiatives include Aflatoun (Child Savings International), Childline India Foundation and Child Helpline International. Currently, she serves as the founder and managing director of Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI).
Under Jeroo's leadership, CYFI has worked with 91 governments to create national initiatives for Economic Citizenship Education and Financial Inclusion, and aided the addition of financial inclusion and economic citizenship education in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. CYFI acts as a technical partner in the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI). CYFI's annual flagship event, Global Money Week, has featured activities by 1000+ stakeholders in 136 countries, reaching more than 5.6 million children. The Child and Youth Finance Movement has engaged partners and stakeholders in 124 countries and reached over 36 million children and youth by the end of 2015.
Jeroo Billimoria was born in Mumbai, India to an accountant and a social worker. Raised in a family strongly committed to social service, her father's early death caused her to dedicate herself to social causes. Billimoria received a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Mumbai (formerly the University of Bombay) in 1986, an M.A. in Social Work from India's Tata Institute of Social Sciences in 1988 and an M.S. in Non-Profit Management from the New School for Social Research University in New York in 1992. From 1991 to 1999, she was a professor at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
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