Panelists: Micro Finance

Vinay Chawla
US Foreign Service
Swayam Krishi Sangam

Vinay Chawla is a Second Secretary at the US Embassy in Amman, Jordan. He manages an economic portfolio that includes US-Jordan trade & investment, labor, and monetary policy. Additionally, he covers Jordan’s technology, aviation, and energy sectors.

Before joining the Foreign Service, Vinay Chawla was a technology consultant for BearingPoint. In 2000, he took a leave of absence to work with Swayam Krishi Sangam (SKS), a Grameen Bank replicator in South India. At SKS, he led work on a smart card loan repayment system that earned the organization and its CEO a 2006 TIME Top 100 award.

Vinay earned a B.A. from Northwestern University in 1997. He is married to Ritu Upadhyay.

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