Michaela L. Walsh

★Ibero-American Lifetime Achievement Medal
Financier, banker, founder and first president of Women's World Banking. Walsh was one a handful of women working on Wall Street in the 1950s when she became the first female manager to represent Merrill Lynch in its Beirut, Lebanon office in 1960. In 1970, Walsh became the first woman to make partner at the Wall Street brokerage firm Boettcher and Company. Walsh served as a project director at the US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment where she consulted on appropriate technology.