Tiara Letourneau is a strategis t in the financial sector. She currently works with the Green Climate Fund \, assisting in the development of its Strategic Plan and Private Sector F acility. She holds a Masters of Finance from Cambridge University and has a background in international development\, corporate strategy\, and comme rcial and retail banking. She has completed research in microfinance\, Isl amic banking\, banking history\, and alternative models of corporate gover nance in universal banks. Previously she worked as a Manager of Strategy a t RBC\, and has held positions in Aboriginal finance and microfinance.
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\n\nPrior to 2008 Tiara worked in international devel opment\, specializing in microfinance and business-development training fo r street-traders. She also holds a Masters of Development Studies from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. In 2010 Tiara became an Action Canada Fello w and chaired the Action Canada Task Force on Canadian Household Debt. She has held leadership positions in a variety of organizations including the think tank Canada25 and the Compassionate Eye Foundation. She also held t he position of Senior Editor for Economics at The Cambridge Globalist Camb ridge University&rsquo\;s foreign affairs magazine.
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