David Dovan

David Dovan is a Senior Investment Specialist covering the infrastructure sector for the Private Sector Operations Department (PSOD) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). David’s geographical coverage includes Indonesia and Malaysia

Prior to joining ADB, he worked with Societe Generale, Mizuho Bank, and ABN Amro covering the energy and infrastructure sector in the Asia Pacific Region.

Debbie Watkins

Debbie Watkins is the CEO and co-founder of Lucy, a neobank built to help entrepreneurial women who are overlooked, underestimated, and underbanked become unstoppable. She has 20+ years of experience in technology for finance, mobile-enabled products and services, business and strategy consulting, and management. She has lived in Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Singapore over the past 20 years, and worked in 30 additional countries throughout Africa and Asia.  

[VIDEO] The Business Case for Financing Women—ADB PSOD

In this 60-minute session, ADB’s Private Sector Financial Institutions Division will showcase financial institutions which are banking women in innovative ways. The session will provide insights into different financial institutions’ journeys to identify and capture the business opportunity that women borrowers present. Founders and CEOs of financial institutions and neo banks will share their experiences on how they use creative business models to finance women.

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