An Overview of Demand-side Survey Data Sets on Women's Financial Inclusion

Yasmin facilitates a community of practice on women’s financial inclusion. Before joining CGAP, Yasmin developed indicators measuring women’s equality under the law for the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law project and contributed to publications on matters of legal barriers to women’s economic empowerment. Her previous work experience spans the public, private, and nongovernmental sectors. Yasmin holds JD and MSFS degrees from Georgetown University and a bachelor's degree in Economics from Harvard.

Saara works across the Global Programs to connect program & advocacy elements to achieve new strategic objectives. Prior to joining the foundation, Saara worked in global investment banking and capital markets at Dexia and Scotia Capital, as well as, being a corporate liaison for a large NGO consortium in Bangalore, India. Saara is currently a member of the affiliate faculty for the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington, and a lecturer in the MBA Program. Saara advises on interdisciplinary projects for the University of Washington School of Global Health, the Foster School of Business and the Evans School of Policy. Saara has a Bachelor of Biological Sciences from Queen’s University, an MBA from the University of Washington and a Certificate in Decision Sciences from Stanford.

Leora's publications focus on household, SME and corporate finance, entrepreneurship and risk management. Her current research studies the impact of digital financial services, especially for women. She is a founder of the Global Findex database, which measures financial inclusion around the world. Previously, she worked at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Salomon Smith Barney. She holds a Ph.D. in Financial Economics from New York University Stern School of Business.

Nadia currently manages financial inclusion and consumer insights research for InterMedia. In this role, she uses mixed-methodology research to measure and evaluate impact, design new initiatives, produce market-level analysis, and better understand users’ decision-making and experiences. Nadia is responsible for the Financial Inclusion Insights (FII) program's strategic communications and partnership development, working with stakeholders to design and implement effective and appropriate solutions. Previously, she managed Africa initiatives at Accion’s Center for Financial Inclusion. She has expertise in consumer protection and standard setting and measurement for impact evaluation. Nadia has a Masters in economics from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, BA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and is fluent in French and English.

Since joining FinMark Trust, Abel has been appointed Project Lead for the FinScope Consumer Survey studies in Mauritius, Nepal and Botswana. He has implemented Financial Literacy Study in Seychelles and FinScope Mauritius which had a significant information on how financial literacy influences financial inclusion. He performs customized analysis across different spectrums according to users’ needs and has also been involved with geographic information systems (GIS) related projects and Data Visualization initiatives. He has done a series of customised analysis across gender highlighting the drivers and barriers to financial inclusion that the excluded – especially women face. He has recently been promoting the use of data for product design while driving the financial inclusion agenda.