Julia Corvalan is an international development practitioner from Paraguay. Having worked in the field since 2007, Julia has expertise in a variety of areas ranging from micro-finance & micro-enterprise development, to entrepreneurial education and financial literacy. In her role as Country Manager of the Tanzania operation of the Fundacion Paraguaya (FP), she led a south-south cooperation program that is replicating social technology developed in South America, in Africa. The program took to scale the FP’s innovative secondary school model- the Financially Self-Sufficient (FSS) School. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Strategic Management and was a Global Young Leader at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in 2014.
