Yana Watson is a Manager with Dalberg Global Development Advisors, a strategic advisory firm specializing in international development and globalization issues. Yana specializes in emerging markets finance, and leads the firm's work in microfinance investment and institutional strategy. Prior to joining Dalberg, Yana was a manager with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), dividing her time between the Financial Services and Social Impact practices. Prior to BCG, Yana worked with VISA International's emerging markets division on microfinance strategy. She analyzed VISA's business model to articulate the value - both economic and from a corporate social responsibility standpoint - of investment in the microfinance market. Yana also worked with Women's World Banking on technological innovation in the provision of financial services to the poor, and later with a WWB affiliate, ADOPEM, a microfinance bank in the Dominican Republic. Yana holds a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in Political Science and an MBA from The Wharton School. While at Wharton, Yana designed and co-taught an elective microfinance class and led a team of student volunteers to participate in the Global Microentrepreneurship Awards (GMAs), part of the UN's International Year of Microcredit.