MinhChau spent 25 years working with the World Bank Group in Washington, DC. She was responsible for policy dialogues, project evaluations, and loan negations for various projects in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. She also served as the head to the Gender Development Division at the World Bank. She joined the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a private sector arm of the World Bank, shortly thereafter to help direct IFC’s operations in riskier markets. She left the World Bank Group in 2000 to promote venture capital in women’s business through ISIS Management Group which she helped to found. She joined East Meets West Foundation in 2005 as a Board member, and then as a Chief Strategy Officer in 2007. In 2009, she became the Country Director for Vietnam and Vice President for the Water and Sanitation portfolio in the same organization until 2014. She joined as Principal, Results for Development Institute in Washington DC in 2015. MinhChau received her B.S. from Macalester College, her M.S in economics from the University of Washington, and her Advanced Management Training at Harvard Business School