Member Biography
 Virginia Robinson
Consultant
Washington, DC
Email: vbr2@verizon.net
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Virginia Robinson, Board Member and
Founding Member TIAW Microcredit Program
Presently Virginia resides in the Washington, DC area. Throughout her career in the government, she opened avenues of communications in many countries and organizations focusing on international aspects of accounting, auditing, budgeting, financial analysis and reporting as well as human resource management. Her work as an international financial management consultant to the U.S. Treasury and the Harvard Institute for International Development led her to countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, and
South America . Much of the work as an adviser to Treasury focused on assisting former Soviet Union countries and others receiving
funds to transition from a command economy to a market economy. She has taught and given presentations on international aspects of financial management in countries and islands abroad, including , The Gambia, , , , , Guam, Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands . Currently, she teaches and assists in the implementation of a certification program in governmental financial management.
One of her passions is volunteerism. Her volunteer work has included serving as National President of the Association of Government Accountants, President of Executive Women in Government, Vice President, International Consortium on Governmental Financial Management and President of the
Washington, DC Chapter of the International Institute of Internal Auditors. She worked in The Internal Revenue Service’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program for 17 years, and worked with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Program as an instructor and counselor. She has served as a mentor in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Public Sector Auditing Program. She has also mentored young women in the High Tea Society. Recently, she worked with Habitat for Humanity to build homes for victims of Hurricane Katrina. That experience was so rewarding she has decided to return next month. With all of the enriching volunteer opportunities to give back, she continues to reserve time for her duties as CFO for TIAW’s Microenterprise Program.
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