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Roberta is from Padua, Italy. She holds a Dual degree in Business Administration and International Business and a Master's Degree in Economics and Management for Nonprofit Organizations. She is passionate from microfinance and this interest has emerged when starting to collaborate in a microcredit project run by an Italian association. Last year, she also spent two months in Ghana researching models for linking indigenous financial intermediaries (Susu Collectors) with the formal banking system. Roberta is now collaborating as a Kenya Country Liaison Intern at Zidisha Inc, a peer-to-peer microlending service that offers direcy interaction between lenders and borrowers worldwide. She is willing to further her education in the field of Development Finance and she dreams of traveling across Africa to learn more about entrepreneurship and the use of financial services in the continent.