Emily Romano

Emily Romano is a Senior Policy Manager at J-PAL Global, where she manages the Social Protection sector and oversees the Social Protection Initiative. As a member of the Policy and Communications group, Emily works with governments, NGOs, academics, and others to build partnerships and advance evidence-informed policymaking.

Prior to joining J-PAL in 2020, Emily worked for seven years on smallholder agricultural finance at Root Capital. She managed the development, maintenance, and implementation of lending policies, procedures, and underwriting resources and prepared reports and analyses on the non-performing loan portfolio. She also managed lending systems projects and provided support to treasury operations.

Emily holds a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University with a concentration in economics and public policy and a Bachelor of Arts in mathematical economic analysis and policy studies from Rice University.