Since joining CFI in 2012, Alex has been an advocate for consumer protection and evidence-based inclusive finance practices.
She manages the responsible data practices research portfolio at CFI which focuses on opportunities and risks for low-income consumers from data-driven financial services. Previously, she was a senior director for CFI’s Smart Campaign initiative, where she managed consumer-protection learning agendas and helped launch the Client Protection Certification Program.
Prior to joining CFI, Alex was a project development manager at Innovations for Poverty Action, where she helped create its microsavings and payments innovation initiative (now part of its global financial inclusion initiative), a research fund focused on impact evaluations of savings products and payment systems. She also worked at the Centre for Microfinance at IFMR Research (now Krea University) in Chennai, India, where she was the head of knowledge management and dissemination.
She has participated in multiple industry working groups on responsible finance, including an advisory group to GSMA’s mobile money certification program and the Microfinance Center’s social performance fund steering committee.
Alex is a graduate of Princeton University and holds a master’s degree from Georgetown’s foreign service school, as well as a certificate in digital money from the Digital Frontiers Institute and The Fletcher School at Tufts University. She speaks conversational French and needs to work on her Italian.
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Senior Research Director, Consumer Data Opportunities and Risks

Alexandra (Alex) Rizzi

Join the Smart Campaign's Alex Rizzi for a panel discussion about the future of banking.

Smart Campaign Director Alex Rizzi will speak on a panel entitled "Banking of the Future."

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Smart Campaign Director <a href="/bio/alexandra-rizzi">Alex Rizzi</a> will speak on a a panel entitled &#8220;Banking of the Future&#8221; that will explore how financial service providers, regulators and consumer groups work can together to ensure fintech supports inclusive access, choice and innovation, whilst raising standards and maintaining high levels of consumer protection.

Consumers International Summit 2019

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