A decade of financial Inclusion

Over 10 years ago, a team gathered for a retreat in Seattle, United States to map out a single shared dream on a drawing board. The Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) had humble beginnings but since receiving their initial grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, AFI has flourished to become a leading global network of financial policymakers from developing and emerging countries. And today, looking back in awe and looking forward with hope for so much more —10 years later, AFI is still here tirelessly advocating financial inclusion.

We needed to think out-of-the-box because we did not have a point of reference for a project of this kind and no experience in this field for a global initiative to learn from. Essentially, we had to start from scratch.

To mark AFI’s 10-year celebration, we sat down with Executive Director, Dr. Alfred Hannig for a walk down memory lane to reflect on AFI’s early years and its decade of impact on financial inclusion. Read more from Dr. Hannig.

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