Ashwini is head of products and marketing for Janalakshmi Financial Services, India’s largest urban microfinance institution serving over 4 million urban customers. Janalakshmi began as a microcredit organization and is in the process of transforming into a full-service small finance bank to provide a wider range of offerings to low-income customers.
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Joseph is Acting Head of M-Sente, the mobile money transfer and bill payment platform for Uganda Telecom Ltd., where he is the National Sales Manager overseeing product development, business growth and implementation for its mobile financial services strategy. Joseph has 11 years of practical experience in sales, distribution and marketing.
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Geric has 10 years of experience in Microinsurance. He is a rule breaker of the traditional insurance mindset and practices, and a customer champion.
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David Mark is a serial entrepreneur, mobile enthusiast and occasional speaker on financial inclusion and disruptive technologies. In 2012 David co-founded M-Changa, Africa’s largest crowdfunding platform by volume. He is the current President of Changa Labs, a USA-based organization dedicated to financial inclusion research, as well as leadership in mobile and digital philanthropy. Prior to co-…
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Stella has over two decades of experience as a financial journalist, reporting worldwide in multimedia formats on banking, economics and international development issues. She recently joined CGAP and is delighted to host the discussion.
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Veteran journalist Ray Suarez was most recently the host of Al Jazeera America’s daily news program, Inside Story. Before coming to AJAM, Suarez spent 14 years as a correspondent and anchor at public television’s nightly newscast, The PBS NewsHour where he rose to become chief national correspondent. During his years at The NewsHour, Suarez covered the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington,…
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Laura Chioda is a Senior Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist of the Latin America and Caribbean Region and in the Office of the Chief Economist for Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions at the World Bank. She received her PhD in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the World Bank, Laura was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton…
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Eric L. Olson is the Associate Director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. His research and writing has focused primarily on security issues and the impacts of crime, organized crime, and violence on democracies. He has also written about police reform and judicial institutions as a vehicle for addressing the problem of rapidly…
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Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera (Ph.D. in Political Science, The New School for Social Research) is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Affairs and Security Studies, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), Brownsville Campus. Her areas of expertise are Mexico-U.S. relations, energy, border security, immigration, and organized crime. Her teaching fields include comparative politics,…
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Lisa Friedman is the Editor-in-Chief of Climatewire, leading a team of 12 reporters covering the business and politics of climate change. Previously she served as Climatewire’s deputy editor and international affairs reporter covering the global climate change negotiations and the intersection between climate, international security and development. In pursuit of those stories she has gone to the…
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