Staff

Bangladesh

India is a global leader in financial inclusion. For over a decade, Accion has worked with and learned from India’s innovators, investors, and policymakers to expand economic opportunity for its people and businesses.

India

Lao PDR

Myanmar

Nepal

Pakistan

Philippines

Senior Director, South and Southeast Asia, Smart Campaign

Consumer Protection

Hema Bansal

Senior Director, Smart Campaign 

Appropriate Product Design and Delivery

Client Treatment

Complaint Resolution

Digital Credit

Microfinance

Nano Loans

Over-indebtedness

PayGo

Privacy

Product Pricing

Smart Certification

Social Performance

Transparency

Alexandra Rizzi

Sub-Saharan Africa

Vice President

Banks

Challenges and Crises

Credit

Enabling Environment

Entrepreneurs of MSMEs

Equity Investing

Financial Service Providers

Governance

Impact Investing

Initial Public Offering

Microfinance Institutions

Responsible Exit

Responsible Investing

Risk Management

Trends

Underserved Groups

Valuation

Deborah Drake

Senior Communications Specialist

Neal Kennedy

South Asia

Manager, South and Southeast Asia, Smart Campaign

Tanwi Kumari

Lead Research Specialist

Jacqueline Foelster

Research Associate 

Tess Johnson

Director of Strategy and Operations

Ethan Loufield

Research Manager

Alex Kessler

Senior Director, Gender and Financial Inclusion

Julia Arnold

Latin America and The Caribbean

Senior Research Director 

Access Usage Gap

Alternative Data

Behavioral Insights

Customer Centricity

Data Analytics

Delivery Channels

Digital Financial Services

Energy Finance

Financial Capability

Financial Health

Financial Technology

Informal Credit

Payments

Personal Financial Management

Policy, Regulation and Government Initiatives

Remittances

Resilience

Saving

Smallholder Farmers

Social Impact Metrics

Women

Eric Noggle

Digital Content Strategist and Editor

Ezra Mannix

Senior Director, MIX

Maha Khan

Specialist

Garrett Jaso

Afghanistan

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Burundi

Congo, Dem. Rep.

Croatia

East Asia and Pacific

Egypt, Arab Rep.

Europe and Central Asia

Indonesia

Iraq

Jordan

Kosovo

Lebanon

Middle East and North Africa

Morocco

Serbia

Sierra Leone

South Sudan

Sudan

Syrian Arab Republic

Tunisia

West Bank and Gaza

Yemen, Rep.

Zimbabwe

Managing Director

Agent Banking

Aging and Older Adults

Agricultural and Rural Finance

Consumer Credit

Education Finance

Financial Inclusion Strategy

Housing Finance

Human Centered Design

Mobile Banking

MSME/SME Finance

Refugees and Migrants

Responsible Digital Finance

Rural Populations

Youth

Mayada El-Zoghbi

Project Associate and Program Coordinator

Madeleine Longwell

Program Director, Board Leadership for Impact Program 

Shradha Modi

Senior Director, Knowledge and Communications 

Lauren Braniff