About the author 

Bobbi Gray is Senior Research Director at Grameen Foundation USA. She has more than 18 years of experience in designing, implementing and coordinating research and evaluation on financial, health and agricultural programs for underserved communities across Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa. Much of her recent research and programmatic experiences include understanding the barriers and opportunities to women’s economic empowerment and developing programmatic and evaluation tools for the same as well as studying the unintended impacts of women’s economic empowerment initiatives on the lives of women and their families. Bobbi holds a Master of Public Administration degree in International Management from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a B.A. in French and Spanish from Texas Tech University.

 

Piyush Singh, Project Director of Innovation in Digital Finance with Grameen Foundation India, has more than a decade of experience working as a Consultant, Strategic Alliance head, and Product and Project Lead in the FinTech and Financial Inclusion domains. He has diverse experience of working in Digital payment, remittance, E-Governance, Microfinance Industry, Financial literacy, Business Correspondence, Mobile Money, and Pre-paid instruments. He has also worked on different layers of India Stack, Aadhaar, and other traditional and emerging Payment systems. He has done his masters from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB), and executive course from Columbia business school. He is a certified Digital Banking and Design Thinking Practitioner, along with certifications in Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning for business. He is a thought leader in the Fintech and Financial inclusion domain and gets frequently invited to speak at national and global events.