Nandini Harihareswara

Nandini Harihareswara is an independent consultant specializing in FinTech, Digital Finance and Payments. She formerly worked as the Senior Advisor & Lead Focal Point on Gender Equality for UNCDF’s IDE division, and as the UNCDF Digital Finance Regional Technical Specialist in Zambia and Malawi. She was a founding member of the USAID Digital Development Division in 2011 and served as the Strategy & Operations Chief and Senior Digital Finance Advisor. She began at USAID working as an Investment Officer for the Development Credit Authority Office. She began her career as a Presidential Management Fellow at the US Department of Transportation & the World Bank. She was the architect of the UNCDF Women as Builders of Digital Economies approach and the UNCDF Zambia Sprint4Women DFS design competition, and the author of numerous publications focused on finance, technology and international development, most recently a co-author of the recent G20 paper on Advancing Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion. Nandini has an MBA and a Masters in International Trade and Investment Policy from the George Washington University. She also holds a BS in Psychology and a BA in Political Science from the University of California at San Diego. She lives in Bangalore, India.