In an effort to capture as complete and accurate a picture as possible of the rapidly evolving financial inclusion environment in each of our 26 focus countries and beyond, the Financial and Digital Inclusion Project (FDIP) team reached out to government representatives in each of the 26 countries, as well as to many other domestically and internationally-based financial inclusion experts.
As in previous years, we benefited from high levels of engagement among many of these contacts throughout the 2017 report cycle and are grateful for their insights regarding financial inclusion within our country sample and/or the global financial inclusion landscape more generally. We would like to extend our appreciation to these diverse financial inclusion authorities, including:
Adriana Labardini, Instituto Federal de Telecommunicaciones
Alex Martin, ePesos
Angela Lyons, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Anne Wallwork, United States Department of the Treasury
Ben Cessa, openBerry Foundation for Digital Inclusion
Camila Lecaros, MassChallenge
Carlos Cornejo, Mastercard
Carmen Cecilia León Franco, Banca de las Oportunidades
The Centre for Financial Regulation & Inclusion (Cenfri)
Cristina Oliveira Roriz, Banco Central do Brasil
David Medine, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor
Dorothe Singer, The World Bank
Edgar Cortés, Banco de México
Elaine Hake, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
Elisabeth Rhyne, Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion
Elvira Cruvinel Ferreira, Banco Central do Brasil
Ernest Wasake, WMC Africa
Francis Gwer, Financial Sector Deepening Kenya
Gitau Mburu, Financial Sector Deepening Kenya
Hemant Baijal, Mastercard
Hernán Fernandez, Angel Ventures
Ian Robinson, Independent consultant in financial inclusion and impact assessment
Inclusive Finance Advocacy Office of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Irene Espinosa Cantellano, La Tesorería de la Federación (TESOFE)
Jamie Zimmerman, Bankable Frontier Associates (Former)
Jay Alabraba, Pagatech Limited
Juliana Álvarez Gallego, Banca de las Oportunidades
Juliana Martínez Hernández, Banca de las Oportunidades
Kabinda Kawesha, Bank of Zambia
Karoline Schmid, United Nations
Kay McGowan, USAID (Former)
Kelly Goldstein, Fannie Mae
Kennedy Komba, Alliance for Financial Inclusion
Kyle Holloway, Innovations for Poverty Action
Leora Klapper, The World Bank
Leticia Riquelme Arriola, Inter-American Development Bank
Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Center for Global Development
Mahadevan Balakrishnan, Chief Operating Officer of National Payments Corporation of India (Former); Independent consultant in the payments and financial inclusion space (Current)
Mannie T’Chawi, LayerCake
Matthew Gamser, SME Finance Forum, International Finance Corporation
Matthew Grasser, Bankable Frontier Associates
Matthew Saal, International Finance Corporation
Mohamed Msekeni, Msekeni Inc.
Omar Dergal, FONDESO
Patrick Chuasoto, Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines, Washington, D.C.
Ronaldo Vieira da Silva, Banco Central do Brasil
Rubayat Chowdhury, Bangladesh Bank
Gabriela Andrade, Inter-American Development Bank
Sakal Mao, Royal Embassy of Cambodia
Samuel Schueth, InterMedia
Silvio Carlos Arduini, Banco Central do Brasil
Sonja Kelly, Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion
Susy Cheston, Independent Consultant
Tazeen Hasan, The World Bank Group
Tewodros Tassew, BelCash Ethiopia
Tidhar Wald, Better Than Cash Alliance
Tilman Ehrbeck, Omidyar Network
Tomás Conde, BBVA
Victor Hugo Lopez Aranda, FONDESO
‘Wale Esan, Wema Bank