Babur Wasim is an economist with more than 15 years of experience in the development sector, focusing on agriculture economics, job creation for marginalized labour, and designing impact evaluation studies. His expertise includes project development, project costing, and economic analysis, along with methodologies for project progress monitoring and impact evaluation. He has worked in seven countries on projects funded by various entities including the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, USAID, covering themes like agriculture development, poverty reduction and microfinance.

Camille is managing BlueMove, a fund initiated by BlueSeeds and WWF, facilitating access to European subsidies for small-scale fishermen, enabling them to finance sustainable fishing projects and receive technical and financial assistance.

Within the Entrepreneurs du Monde’s network, she developed extensive experience in financial inclusion and a genuine belief in the power of entrepreneurship. She contributed to the creation and development of Microfinance Solidaire, a fund which now finances 20 organisations in 14 countries with a total portfolio of €11 million.

Aude de Montesquiou is FinEquity Community of Practice Facilitator at CGAP. Aude worked at CGAP from 2005 to 2017, last as Financial Sector Development Specialist, leading CGAP’s Graduating the Poorest and Vulnerable Segments work. She oversaw the implementation of the CGAP-Ford Foundation Graduation Program, a global effort to understand how safety nets, livelihoods, and microfinance can be sequenced to create for the poorest out of extreme poverty in eight countries with an intensive research agenda and randomized impact evaluations in seven sites (Science, 2015).

Jaeseung Suk is the Lead Manager Mutual Savings Bank Supervision Department Financial Supervisory Service of Korea

Ayushi is a Development Finance professional with extensive experience in financial inclusion. She worked extensively in microfinance, credit delivery to MSMEs, digital finance products (service delivery, credit delivery, savings, and remittances), green finance, product development, credit appraisal, promoted entrepreneurship, and easy access to credit among small businesses with a focus on rural and semi-urban women entrepreneurs.

Anshukant Taneja is Principal Investment Specialist at Private Sector Operations Department (PSOD), Asian Development Bank (ADB).  He leads the PSOD Microfinance Program that focuses on financial inclusion and helps microfinance institutions deepen their access to commercial finance. Before joining ADB, he worked as regional director of ratings at Standard & Poor’s in Singapore, and with ABN AMRO Bank in India.

Dr. Rashid Bajwa is the CEO of NRSP which is Pakistan’s largest rural development organization. NRSP was established in 1991 as a “not for profit company registered under Sec 42 of company’s ordinance with the SECP. He has successfully steered the organization to become the largest Not for Profit organization in Pakistan in terms of its outreach, client base and ability to manage funding for the rural poor.