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How can you avoid becoming a victim of bank or mobile fraud?

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

Raising public awareness of fraud and transparency in mobile and traditional banking in the West African nation is the main goal of the 13-week programming. 

Raising awareness of fraud and transparency in mobile and traditional banking in the West African nation is the main goal of the 13-week programming. 

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Extensive coverage of the &#8220;You Deserve to Know&#8221; (#YouDeserveToKnow) campaign in the national Ghanian media features quotes from <a href="https://www.centerforfinancialinclusion.org/bio/alexandra-rizzi">Alex Rizzi</a>, Director of the Smart Campaign.
&#8220;This series aims to equip clients with the knowledge they deserve to know to make the best financial decisions for themselves,” Rizzi stated in a <a href="https://www.pulse.com.gh/lifestyle/events/consumer-protection-global-consumer-advocate-launches-you-deserve-to-know-campaign/72tlsjv">Pulse</a> article. Coverage of the campaign also appeared in <a href="https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/financial-literacy-campaign-launched.html">Graphic Online</a> and <a href="https://citinewsroom.com/2019/02/26/global-consumer-advocate-launches-youdeservetoknow-campaign/">Citi Newsroom</a>.
The campaign focuses on improving the financial enabling environment by educating the public in two topic areas, transparency and fraud.
Listeners in Ghana can tune in to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/adom106.3/">Adom 106.3 FM</a> on Thursdays, 5:30 pm local time, to hear the programs. The episodes include drama and expert interviews on the topics. <a href="https://radio.modernghana.com/station/adom1063fm">Live streaming</a> of Adom 106.3 FM is also available.
The &#8220;You Deserve to Know&#8221; campaign is in collaboration with <a href="http://www.fiforumafrica.org/">Financial Inclusion Forum Africa</a>.
This Smart Campaign video below provides an introduction.

Smart Campaign’s “You Deserve to Know” Radio Campaign Featured in Ghanaian Media

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