Corinne Riquet

During her 30 years of professional experience, Corinne Riquet-Bamba focused her work initially on microfinance and financial inclusion, and then specialized during the last 10 years on digital finance as as regional representative of CGAP. In this context, since 2008, she has worked on the development of the remote banking and digital finance ecosystem in the WAEMU. She has thus coordinated and contributed to several studies and surveys aimed at understanding the supply and demand for digital financial services for low-income and financially excluded communities. She has also contributed to assessments of the ecosystem and of the regional and national regulatory frameworks of digital financial services. She also supervised and advised the implementation of innovative digital finance pilot projects led by private sector providers, microfinance institutions and mobile operators. In addition, from 2009 to 2013, she coordinated the CGAP program to build the capacity of microfinance institutions in French-speaking Africa in partnership with 16 organizations from 12 countries.

In parallel and since 2001, as an independent consultant in financial inclusion, mainly covering French-speaking Sub-Saharan African countries, she has worked with a wide range of clients, focusing on technical assistance missions with MFIs and donors on organizational audit practices, business plans, ex ante and ex post project evaluations, the design of financial services in rural areas, and the evaluation and design of national microfinance strategies.