Austine Gasnier

Austine Gasnier

2019 Ricardo Salinas Scholar, Ricardo Salinas Scholarship

Austine Gasnier is Agora Partnerships’ Managing Director.

Austine Gasnier is Agora Partnerships’ Managing Director. Austine oversees the Latam team, programs, and business development strategy. She has over 12 years of experience working on market-based approaches to poverty alleviation, first with the United Nations Development Programme (UNPD) in New York, undertaking research on inclusive business models worldwide. Then with Fundación Capital as Micro-entrepreneurship Specialist and Senior Operations Manager in Colombia, and later as Resident Representative in Mexico, where she focused on financial and productive inclusion (“Graduation model”) strategies for the poor and extreme poor. Austine holds a Master’s degree in ‘Governance of Institutions and Organizations’ from Sciences Po Bordeaux. Selected to participate in ANDE Annual Conference 2019.