Lisa Afua Serwah Mensah is a US citizen who is the President and CEO of Opportunity Finance Network (OFN) a network of community development financial institutions that manage over $27 billion of investments in housing, business, and facilities in low-income areas throughout America.   She is a development finance expert with experienceusing public and private sector financial tools to improve economic security. She previously served as President Obama’s Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development and founded the Initiative on Financial Security at The Aspen Institute. She was educated at Harvard and Johns Hopkins and has worked extensively on small and micro-business development, housing, and financial and savings policy. Ms. Mensah began her career in commercial banking at Citibank before joining the Ford Foundation where she was responsible for the country’s largest philanthropic grant and loan portfolio of investments in rural America. She serves on the board of the Heritage and Cultural Society of Africa, U.S.A.