Jamie M. Zimmerman

Jamie M. Zimmerman is Deputy Director of the Global Assets Project, a joint venture of the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation and the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis. The project, launched in 2006, aims to inform and stimulate global asset-building innovations among the increasingly integrated areas of microfinance, financial education, social policy, and commercial financial services. Ms. Zimmerman develops and manages the project’s efforts to advance savings and asset-building policies and initiatives around the world.

Previously, Ms. Zimmerman was the Associate Director of Globalization Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, where she managed research and outreach efforts for projects aimed at building awareness of the relationship between international trade, human rights, and corporate social responsibility. She has also worked as an international trade consultant in São Paulo, Brazil, and with nonprofit micro-enterprise development groups in Urubamba, Peru. She is a graduate of the University of Kentucky, where she also earned a master’s degree in international political economy and international development from the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce. Ms. Zimmerman has spoken frequently on economic development and corporate social responsibility, both domestically and abroad, and her writing has appeared in Yale Global, Human Rights Quarterly, the Bangkok Post, and the South China Morning Post. She is the co-author of Trade Imbalance: The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights Concerns in Trade Policymaking, published in 2007.

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