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Weselina Angelow
Senior Programme Manager
Weselina Angelow is an international development expert with two decades of experience in initiatives across Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. She brings with her an in-depth knowledge of financial inclusion. Weselina works with WSBI (World Savings and Retail Banking Institute)'s Advisory Services and is part of the Institute's global efforts to provide an account for everyone and making a contribution to universal financial access. In this context, she manages the learning agenda and English speaking projects of WSBI's Scale2Save initative. Her focus is on understanding the business case of small scale savings and the drivers of usage for formal financial services when offered to the underserved and unbanked. Prior to joining WSBI, Weselina worked for pixell, an Amadeus Leisure Group company in Germany, and in private sector development for GIZ (Germany's Agency for International Cooperation) in Chile. Weselina holds a Master in Economics and Social Sciences from Bonn University and an Executive Master in Responsible Banking from Instituto de Estudios Bursatiles (IEB) in partnership with London School of Economics (LSE) and WSBI.
WSBI Advisory Services
weseline.angelow@wsbi-as.org
02
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Sean Brish
Communications Advisor
Sean helps with communications efforts for the programme, including social media. He also serves as a communications specialist in the communications department at WSBI. Before starting in that role this year, he was an assistant in the legal and regulatory affairs area at WSBI and sister organisation ESBG. Raised in California and Belgium, he is an expert in English and French, and studied translation at the University of Mons.
WSBI
sean.brish@wsbi-esbg.org
03
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Agnès Fall
Local Technical Specialist (French-speaking countries)
With consultancy expertise in African countries, Agnes specialises in project management and leadership as well as IT strategy and management, especially core banking systems. With more than 28 years’ experience in ICT, network and telecommunication, she has gained extensive knowledge of corporate and retail banking infrastructure and uses her consultancy experience to manage partner relationships. From Senegal, her finance and banking knowledge centres on the microfinance banking sector in Africa. A senior IT consultant since 2014, she has performed services for organisations such as CGAP / World Bank Group. She previously worked for ACCION International as a vice president - programme manager for channels and technology in Africa. She began her career as an IT coordinator at AQUADEV.
Consultant
agneserfall@gmail.com
04
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Viviane Garceau
Project Administrator
Viviane is in charge of the administration of the programme’s funds and resources that includes budgetary reviews, tracking of resource allocations as well as monitoring all expenses related to the Scale2Save Programme. She also ensures that all disbursements are in full compliance with the programme’s budgeting rules and policies for financial activities. Before joining WSBI in 2017, Viviane spent more than 10 years working as an office manager for a European lobbying association in the publishing sector. Prior to that, she also spent a few years working in the United States.
WSBI Advisory Services
viviane.garceau@wsbi-esbg.org
05
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Kimathi Githachuri
Local Technical Specialist (English-speaking countries)
Kimathi is a digital financial services expert with more than 10 years’ experience in mass markets in Africa and Asia. He was part of the initial team that rolled out Safaricom’s M-PESA agent network in Kenya. He was also involved in the launch, and served until January 2016, as the first Head of The Helix Institute of Digital Finance. Prior to The Helix, Kimathi helped launch Warid Pesa as head of Mobile Money at Warid Telecom Uganda, and played a leading role in the product design and commercial roll-out of the first-ever national mobile-based tax-payment system in partnership with Uganda Revenue Authority [URA], Orient Bank Ltd and Equity Bank Uganda Ltd. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in Business Administration at The University of Nairobi in Kenya and holds an MBA from the same university.
Consultant
kimathi@seven-delta.com
06
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James Pieper
Senior Advisor, Communications
A 20-year banking communications veteran, James builds out communications and public outreach programmes that support the two Brussel-based associations’ financial inclusion and innovation programmes, among others. Prior to joining WSBI-ESBG, he managed communications projects at HSBC in Chicago and London. He started his public affairs career at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In a previous life he was a beat reporter for the French daily paper Le Dauphiné Libéré. He studied economics at the University of Illinois-Chicago graduate school, received a master’s degree in managerial communications from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s in economics from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
WSBI
james.pieper@wsbi-esbg.org
07
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Ian Radcliffe
Director
Ian leads WSBI’s Scale2Save programme in partnership with Mastercard Foundation. The programme falls within WSBI’s overall financial inclusion efforts, which he has also led over the past decade. Previously, he delivered financial sector development contracts in more than 75 countries worldwide, acting as programme director for large-scale multilateral, bilateral and private sector-funded programmes and projects. He represents WSBI in its strategic partnership with the World Bank on its UFA 2020 initiative, the UN’s “Better than Cash” Alliance and the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD Development Committee. He was formerly a board member of the European Microfinance Platform. He also worked for National Westminster Bank Plc in the UK and Australia.
WSBI
ian.radcliffe@wsbi-esbg.org
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Céline Stevens
Programme Manager
Managing Scale2Save projects in French-speaking countries, Céline joined WSBI Advisory services in 2017 after serving in the EU Human Rights Defenders Mechanism as a finance officer. Prior to that she worked at Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in finance and project administration management roles that took her to South Soudan, Haiti and Pakistan. Before then she was a product manager at PAB Belelux in Belgium. She studied at finance at Louvain School of Management in Belgium as well as management science from the Facultés universitaires 'Saint-Louis', Bruxelles.
WSBI Advisory Services
celine.stevens@wsbi-as.org