Barbara Scola is a Senior Strategic Partnerships Officer at Mercy Corps, where she manages relationships with French institutional donors and explores new partnership opportunities. Before joining Mercy Corps, Barbara worked as a financial inclusion expert for CGAP, GIZ and other development organizations. Her focus areas include financial inclusion funding trends, market systems development, financial regulation, gender equality and aid effectiveness. Barbara is based near Paris and is fluent in German, English and French, with working knowledge of Spanish.