Frances Reid
2025 ALI Fellow

Frances Reid brings to ALI experience as a global investor in developing and emerging markets across Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. She was the chief operating officer of Root Capital, a provider of financial capital and training to agricultural businesses in the world’s most vulnerable communities, and previously was chief investment officer at CDC Group, the United Kingdom’s government-owned development finance institution, and senior investment and risk officer at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. foreign assistance agency fighting global poverty. She was a U.S. Treasury senior policy advisor, program director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and managing director at Lehman Brothers. Frances is also an advisor to Native American communities on economic development.