Women’s World Banking and Alliance for Financial Inclusion Kick off the Inaugural Leadership and Diversity Program for Regulators

Women’s World Banking, in partnership with the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), welcome 40 leaders from 20 central banks and other regulatory bodies from developing and emerging countries this week to Oxford University to kick off its nine-month Leadership and Diversity Program for Regulators. Participants are Deputy Governors and high potential women leaders of AFI member institutions.

The program, funded by Visa Foundation, set up together with AFI, is taught by Women's World Banking and faculty from Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. The program equips participants with leadership tools and skills to advance financial inclusion policy initiatives for women and build more gender-diverse teams and leaders within their respective institution. It is designed to strengthen the role central bankers, regulators and policymakers, play in creating an environment that promotes the financial inclusion of women by building a more robust pipeline of women leaders and developing specific policies to support gender efforts in national financial inclusion strategies.