Tusi se faaauauina o lenei palakalafa - Michaela L. Walsh (na fanau i Kansas City, Misuri), o se tagata faipisinisi, o se faletupe, o le faavaeina ma le peresitene muamua o le Women's World Banking. O Walsh o se tasi o nai tamaitai na galulue i Wall Street i le 1950s ina ua avea o ia ma pule muamua tamaitai e fai ma sui o Merrill Lynch i lona ofisa i Beirut, Lebanon i le 1960. I le 1970, na avea ai Walsh ma tamaʻitaʻi muamua na avea ma paaga i le Wall Street brokerage firm Boettcher and Company. I le 1972, na auai ai Walsh i le Rockefeller Brothers Fund o se sui o le polokalame, lea na taʻitaʻia ai o ia i le 1975 World Conference on Women
na faia i le Aai o Mekisiko, lea na alia'e mai ai le manatu o le Women's World Banking. I le 1978, na avea ai Walsh ma faatonu o galuega faatino i le US Congress Office of Technology Assessment lea na ia faufautua ai i tekinolosi talafeagai. Na avea Walsh ma se tasi na faavaeina le Women's World Banking ma o lona peresitene muamua, o se tulaga na ia umia mai le 1980 i le 1990.