Arianne Martín

Transforming lives through economic empowerment

Born in Madrid to a Spanish father and a Dominican mother, Arianne was fortunate to learn to embrace diversity and tolerance from an early age. She is an economist by training, a marketing expert by professional experience, and a social worker by passion.

Arianne Martín Rodríguez holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economic Sciences, specializing in Economic Structure from the Autonomous University of Madrid; she has a diploma in International Marketing from the University of Berkeley in California and in Microfinance from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Step by step, she has accumulated more than 30 years of international experience in marketing management, team leadership, social entrepreneurship, consultancy, and university teaching.

After many years dedicated to marketing, she was drawn by her anthropologist’s heart and took a leap of faith to embark on a journey around the world. She enriched herself through interactions with diverse people and cultures, working across various continents for and towards women’s economic empowerment.

As one thing leads to another, she has since worked in different NGOs and foundations in the microfinance and microenterprise sectors and, as an independent consultant, for various development agencies and companies. She has led the design and implementation of development programs focused on providing women access to education, financing, and employment using microfinance, educational, income-generation, and digital tools.

Currently, she advises social enterprises and impact investors on strategies for gender equality, sustainable, inclusive, and alternative finance, gender-lens investing, support for women’s social entrepreneurship, and impact measurement and management. She also collaborates with governments of emerging countries in developing inclusive, sustainable, and equitable public policies. Additionally, she is an external professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid.