Alfred Hannig is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), a global network of policymakers and regulators dedicated to providing the world’s 2 billion unbanked safe access to the formal financial system through smart policy initiatives. Before officially launching the initiative in 2008, Dr. Hannig spent three years leading the design and development of AFI’s unique institutional peer-to-peer cooperation model, aimed at scaling up financial inclusion policy and regulatory solutions that have proven successful in developing and emerging countries.