Jack Shaw
Executive Director, American Blockchain Council | Top 25 Professional Speaker & Top 5 Technology Futurist | Author on AI, Blockchain & Emerging Tech
Anna Escobedo Cabral
42nd U.S. Treasurer | Chair, BBVA Microfinance Foundation | Co-Founder, The Cabral Group | Former Senior Advisor, Inter-American Development Bank
Anna Escobedo Cabral served as the 42nd Treasurer of the United States and now chairs the BBVA Microfinance Foundation and Jessie Ball duPont Fund. A partner at The Cabral Group and Navient board director, she brings senior audiences an insider's lens on financial inclusion, Latino economic empowerment, and how visionary leadership shapes policy at the highest levels of government and global finance.
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Anna Escobedo Cabral biography
Speaker Anna Escobedo Cabral has built one of the most distinguished careers in U.S. public service, blending federal leadership, global development, and advocacy for underserved communities. Sworn in as the 42nd Treasurer of the United States in 2005, Cabral became one of the highest-ranking Latina officials in the federal government, with her signature appearing on every U.S. dollar bill issued during her tenure.
The granddaughter of Mexican immigrants, Cabral has built her career around expanding economic opportunity. As President and CEO of the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility from 1999 to 2003, she partnered with Fortune 500 companies to grow Hispanic representation across employment and philanthropy, and launched a corporate governance training program with Harvard Business School. She also led the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Latino Initiatives and served six years as Deputy Staff Director for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, overseeing legislation on immigration, antitrust, and technology.
From the Treasury to global development finance
After her tenure as Treasurer, Cabral spent nearly a decade at the Inter-American Development Bank, managing external relations with the U.S. Congress and the governments of 26 member countries. There she championed financial inclusion, women’s economic participation, and youth workforce development across the region. Today she chairs the BBVA Microfinance Foundation, one of the world’s largest providers of small loans to low-income entrepreneurs, and the Jessie Ball duPont Fund. She also partners The Cabral Group consulting practice, sits on the Navient board of directors, and advises the Libra Group and Valaurum.
Cabral holds a B.A. in Political Science from UC Davis and a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, with a concentration in international trade and finance.
As a speaker, Anna Escobedo Cabral brings audiences an insider’s view of how economic policy, microfinance, and inclusive leadership translate into real opportunity for communities long left behind. Her sessions resonate with executives, policymakers, and finance speakers audiences who want to understand the levers behind global financial inclusion and Latino economic empowerment in the Americas.
Anna Escobedo Cabral Speaking Videos
An Interview with Former Treasurer of the United States, Anna Escobedo Cabral
Anna Escobedo Cabral
Anna Escobedo Cabral Keynote Topics
In this keynote, Anna Escobedo Cabral explores how microfinance unlocks opportunity for individuals and small businesses excluded from traditional banking. Drawing on her leadership at the BBVA Microfinance Foundation and her years at the Inter-American Development Bank, she shows how access to small loans, savings products, and financial education can transform livelihoods across communities.
Cabral lays out what it takes to scale responsible microfinance — from sustainable models and partnerships across governments, banks, and NGOs, to rigorous impact measurement. Audiences leave with a deeper understanding of how financial inclusion drives economic resilience, social mobility, and inclusive growth in markets that traditional capital often overlooks.
Anna Escobedo Cabral shares insights from a career advancing economic development across Latin America, including her time at the Inter-American Development Bank working with 26 member governments. She explains how microfinance has become a strategic engine for entrepreneurship, women's empowerment, and small-business growth in the region.
With real stories of entrepreneurs who have used small loans to build durable businesses and stable households, Cabral connects financial inclusion with broader regional development goals: gender equity, formalization of work, and resilient local economies. The session is essential listening for leaders investing, operating, or shaping policy in Latin America.
In this powerful keynote, Anna Escobedo Cabral examines the structural drivers of the U.S. wealth gap — racial and gender disparities, unequal access to education and capital, and limited entrepreneurial pathways — and outlines what works to close them. Her perspective is informed by service in the U.S. Treasury, the U.S. Senate, and decades in philanthropy and corporate responsibility.
She highlights innovative tools transforming the landscape: microfinance, social-impact investing, community development finance, and inclusive corporate practices. Cabral challenges the audience to translate insight into action, leaving leaders with a clear sense of how their organizations can help build a more equitable economy.
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Why Anna Escobedo Cabral?
Few speakers offer Anna Escobedo Cabral's vantage point: a former 42nd Treasurer of the United States who now sits at the helm of one of the world's largest microfinance institutions. She combines federal policy depth with hands-on global development experience, translating complex economic concepts into clear, actionable insight for senior audiences. On stage she connects financial inclusion, Latino entrepreneurship, and inclusive growth in a way that resonates with executives, policymakers, and impact-driven leaders. Book Anna Escobedo Cabral through Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring this rare combination of policy authority and lived perspective to your next event.
What is Anna Escobedo Cabral best known for?
Anna Escobedo Cabral is best known as the 42nd Treasurer of the United States, serving from 2005 to 2009 and becoming one of the highest-ranking Latina officials in U.S. federal government history. Her signature appeared on every U.S. dollar bill issued during her tenure. She is also widely recognized for her leadership at the Inter-American Development Bank and for chairing the BBVA Microfinance Foundation, which extends financial services to millions of low-income entrepreneurs across Latin America.
What does the BBVA Microfinance Foundation do?
The BBVA Microfinance Foundation, chaired by Anna Escobedo Cabral, is a non-profit institution that provides small loans, savings products, and financial education to low-income entrepreneurs across Latin America — most of them women running small businesses. It is one of the largest philanthropic initiatives focused on financial inclusion in the Spanish-speaking world, supporting more than two million entrepreneurs and helping families build sustainable livelihoods through productive enterprises.
What topics does speaker Anna Escobedo Cabral cover in her keynotes?
In her keynotes, Anna Escobedo Cabral focuses on financial inclusion and microfinance, Latin American economic development, the role of women and Latinos in the global economy, and strategies for closing the wealth gap. She also speaks on public service leadership, U.S. economic policy, and inclusive growth in emerging markets. To bring Anna Escobedo Cabral to your stage, contact Aurum Speakers Bureau for availability and tailored programming for your audience.
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