Form strategic partnerships with governments and private companies which can act as thought leaders and financiers, helping to train girls and bring them into the workforce.
Her father, a pulp and paper magnate and financier, helped found the Central National Bank in New York.
Mr. DeVos and Peter Cook, another important financier, helped Grand Valley State University build a $57 million Center for Health Sciences on Michigan Street in 2003.
Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs banker, went on to become a movie financier, helping fund some of Hollywood's biggest hits.
For all its social standing, the family had little money, so when Mr. Chauncey finished at Groton, he attended Ohio State University for a year, until a Wall Street financier helped finance his Harvard education.
In January, after the revolution, George Soros, the New York financier, helped to establish a special anticorruption fund to supplement the paltry salaries of most government employees, from the president (who gets $1,500 a month from the fund) down to border guards ($500 a month).
As bridge financier helping companies during the gap between an expiring state bank loan and its renewal (sometimes a few weeks), it was on the hook when the export-dependent Shenzhen economy soured and banks chose not to renew some of those loans.
In a brief speech, Mr. Bloomberg said he expected his fellow financiers to help compensate for cutbacks in city spending over the next few years.
Paulson, who is spending more than $1bn on luxury hotels and resorts on the island, encouraged his fellow financiers to help him turn around the island by moving there and, in doing so, saving themselves a small fortune in tax.
Governments and NGOs can work with MFIs, as both demand generators and financiers, to help accelerate access to safe water and sanitation.
