Lucy Kaaria
Lead Consultant & Founder
I am an expert in digital financial inclusion
and founder & lead consultant at HOPAWI
Management Consulting Limited. My role focuses
on the intersection of products responses to alternative finance/FinTech, with
a particular focus on developing markets. This is primarily through providing
an evidence-base - in the form of research, digital tools and capacity building
and education for policymakers and regulators seeking to develop an appropriate
and fit-for-purpose services and products.
I have 13 years
of track working experience, with 9 years in the measurement of inclusive finance
using both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Since founding
HOPAWI management Consulting limited in 2018, I have consulted with various
clients across the globe.
I have
built solid skills in strategic partnerships, client engagements and
management, digital financial proposal & program design and management,
data analytic and reporting skills, training and building capacity for various
partners, teams and agencies managements, implementation of digital financial
inclusion projects and other customer centric research projects using both
qualitative and quantitative methods.
I have vast experience in managing projects in Africa and
Asia which were funded by The World Bank Group-CGAP, Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundations, Innovations of Poverty Action (IPA), NORC at the University of
Chicago -USAID, FSD Uganda, UNICEF, among other development partners.
I am currently pursuing a Doctorate
Degree (Ph.D.) in Population Studies at the University of Nairobi and I hold a
Master’s degree in Population Studies from the same university
I have led
and managed multi-year, mixed- method financial inclusion research projects in
Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ghana, Zambia, Tanzania, Somalia, Nigeria, Benin,
Mozambique, Senegal and India since 2013.