Bio — Joyce Klein, Senior Director, Business Ownership Initiative, The Aspen Institute

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A biography of Joyce Klein, Senior Director of the Business Ownership Initiative (BOI) at the Aspen Institute. It states that Klein assumed the leadership of the Initiative in 2012 after working as a senior consultant since the program's inception in 1998, and has more than 30 years of experience studying and supporting microenterprise and entrepreneurial development programs and Community Development Financial Institutions. Under that leadership, BOI has launched the Microfinance Impact Collaborative and helped to create the Small Business Borrowers' Bill of Rights, the Responsible Business Lending Coalition and the Entrepreneur Backed Assets Fund. The biography also names a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a degree from Boston College.

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Joyce Klein
Senior Director, Business Ownership Initiative
The Aspen Institute
Biography


Joyce Klein is Senior Director of the Business Ownership Initiative (BOI) at the Aspen
Institute. Part of the Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program, BOI works to
expand economic opportunity through business ownership. Ms. Klein assumed the
leadership of the Initiative in 2012, after working as a senior consultant since the program’s
inception in 1998. She is recognized as a leading expert on the U.S. microenterprise field,
speaking at national and regional industry conferences and being quoted in a variety of
news media including the New York Times and National Public Radio’s Marketplace. Joyce
has more than 30 years of experience studying and supporting microenterprise and
entrepreneurial development programs and Community Development Financial Institutions
in the United States, and has authored or co-authored numerous publications, including
funder brief and strategy guides, evaluation and research reports, case studies and policy
briefs. She has also designed and managed grant programs aimed at supporting innovation
in the practice of microenterprise development in the United States.


Under Ms. Klein’s leadership BOI has launched the Microfinance Impact Collaborative,
helped to create the Small Business Borrowers’ Bill of Rights and the Responsible Business
Lending Coalition and the Entrepreneur Backed Assets Fund. BOI has researched the role of
technology and platforms in expanding the scale and impact of the US microenterprise field.
BOI has also expanded its work in examining the potential role of business ownership and
the microenterprise field in addressing the challenges of financial inclusion and the racial
wealth gap.


Ms. Klein also has worked as a consultant in the microenterprise field, providing assistance
to clients including the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund of the US
Department of the Treasury, and Prosperity Now (formerly CFED). Prior to her work with
FIELD, Ms. Klein led CFED's work in microenterprise development. She holds a master’s
degree in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.A. in Economics
from Boston College. Ms. Klein chairs the executive committee of the Responsible Business
Lending Coalition and the board of Entrepreneur Backed Assets Fund.


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