Diana Medman
Director, AO Bioprocess
Moscow, Russia
Advisor for the International Year of Microcredit 2005

"Founding the Russian Women's Microfinance Network enabled me to pursue gender equality and poverty eradication throughout Russia. As an Advisor to the International Year of Microcredit 2005, I'm pleased to be a part of the overall effort to provide microfinance to poor and low-income people, which gives women everywhere the power to play more prominent roles in their communities."

Deanne Medman is the leader of the Women's Microfinance Network in Russia, the center of Women’s World Banking (WWB) network activities in that country. She is the Director of AO Bioprocess, one of Russia's largest privately-held industrial groups, that includes engineering companies, oil extraction, shipping, chemical production, and construction. She is trained as a biochemist, and was part of the chemistry faculty at Moscow State University from 1979 to 1987. During the past ten years, she has become actively involved in the women's movement and serves on the board of a number of Russian women's organizations. She joined the WWB Board of Trustees in 1998.

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