Born and raised in Lima, Peru, Francesca is a proud Peruvian and a fan of everything Peruvian-related, especially food! She majored in Economics and Business from Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru and started her career working in the transfer pricing practice at Deloitte where she became a consultant and managed her own team and clients. She later joined Unilever and its Customer Development Finance team and after a few years she decided it was time to go back to school and earn her MBA at Northwestern University-Kellogg School of Management. While at Kellogg, she interned during the summer at Reckitt Benckiser as an Assistant Brand Manager for Lysol and had a stint in Asia working on a market assessment project in Hong Kong for a Brazilian food company. After earning her MBA, she moved to Brazil and started working as a Product Manager for a consumer goods company, in charge of the adult care and feminine care categories. As a KF31 Fellow, Francesca wants to empower people with business tools and solutions to lift themselves out of poverty.