Kim Wilson

Kim WilsonVisiting Fellow

Kimberley is presently a Lecturer at the Fletcher School and teaches two courses, Microfinance: Issues and Breakthroughs and Development Aid in Practice. Prior to joining Tufts, she was Director of the Global Micro-Finance Unit at CRS (Catholic Relief Services) from 1998 to 2005 responsible for redesigning strategy for CRS’ global microfinance programming, broadening of services to include bank linkages and other forms of vertical integration, and providing senior technical oversight of combined $19 million global microfinance program portfolio in 25 countries. She has published in several journals on microfinance and is currently working in collaboration with others to develop and implement research in the area of financial resilience in marginalized and conflict-affected communities. Kim holds an MBA from Simmons College Graduate School of Management.

News Items

Karen Jacobsen and Kim Wilson spoke about migrant households at a Symposium
May 19, 2021

Karen Jacobsen and Kim Wilson spoke at a Symposium held by The Journeys Project and Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt called Finance in Displacement: Refugee Integration in Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, and Uganda….

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Disasters journal published paper based on Financial Journeys of Refugees research
January 2, 2018

Roxani Krystalli, Allyson Hawkins, and Kim Wilson co-authored a paper based on the Financial Journeys of Refugees research that the Disasters journal published on December 27, 2017. The paper spotlights the gendered…

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Feinstein Research Projects

The Financial Journey of Refugees
By Kim Wilson, Roxani Krystalli | October 2017

The Financial Journeys of Refugees is a study that investigates what money and financial transactions can reveal about the journeys and experiences of forced migration.

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Advancing Financial Resilience
By Karen Jacobsen, Kim Wilson | July 2010

The Financial Resilience program seeks to promote understanding of financial resilience – the ability of a household or community to prevent, sustain, or recover from financial shocks – in marginalized populations in high-risk/high-stress environments.

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Feinstein Publications

The Financial Journey of Refugees
financial journey of refugees
By Kim Wilson, Roxani Krystalli | October 2017

This report investigates what money and financial transactions can reveal about the journeys and experiences of forced migration.

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Turning Cold Money Hot What the SHG Movement can learn from an Alternate Approach
By Kim Wilson | August 2013

India’s efforts in grassroots finance have been dominated by a powerful form of savings and loan clubs. Self-Help Groups, or SHGs as they are called, nudge urban and rural poor…

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