Meseret Haileyesus
Mesi-Meseret is a multi-award-winning thought leader, industry disruptor and innovator
who works on economic, financial inclusion, and health equity transformations through
evidence, policy influence, and systemic change. She has led numerous initiatives aimed
at promoting women’s, and youth’s economic rights. For the last two decades, she has
served in various international development roles at national and global levels, leafing
efforts to address economic security, public health, and maternal and new born health
initiatives across multiple stakeholders.
As the CEO of the Canadian Center for Women Empowerment (CCFWE), Meseret has
become a driving force for shaping socio-economic policies to advance economic safety
in Canada by collaborating with consumer lawyers, fintech firms, financial institutions,
health care, private companies, telecommunication & energy companies, and the federal
government. Meseret was the first Canadian to call for national and international
responses to economic justice policies to address economic harm in Canadian
Parlament.
Additionally, she is the founder of Maternity Today and a founding member of the
Canadian Institute for Research on Economic Justice to advance research and the new
global network, the member of the Executive Council for Economic and Financial
Inclusion. Through these platforms, she employs evidence-based approaches, policy
influence, and systemic change to tackle financial inclusion health, and economic
insecurities. She is serving as an advisor at the Canadian Center for Non-Profit Digital
Resilience, Board of Directors at Centertown Community Health Centre, End FGM
Canada Network, a member of the Governance Committee for the City of Ottawa’s
Community Safety Wellbeing 10-year Plan, advisor at USA-Nonprofit Technology
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