Elisabeth Rhyne is founder and managing director of the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, a research and action think tank. The CFI works to to protect and empower clients and to challenge and engage the financial inclusion industry. Beth co-founded the Smart Campaign, which has helped embed client protection principles throughout the microfinance industry and is now penetrating the broader financial inclusion sector. As SVP of Accion from 2000-2008 she led Accion’s entry into Africa and India, and during the 1990s she led the Microenterprise Initiative at the U.S. Agency for International Development.