Laurent Lhériau

A Doctor of law, Laurent Lhériau is a specialist in inclusive finance regulation. He is or has been a lecturer in various Masters’ and diploma courses at the University of Lorraine (Nancy, France), at the University of Luxembourg, at the Protestant University of Congo (UPC, Kinshasa), at CESAG (Dakar, Senegal) and the Boulder Microfinance Training Program.

He has contributed to the improvement of inclusive finance regulations (microfinance, digital and mobile banking, postal financial systems, AML-CFT, consumer protection, etc.) in most French-speaking countries, on behalf of development agencies and supervisory authorities.

He assists various financial institutions in their institutional developments and / or their compliance and brings his expertise to supervisors for the strengthening of their control and intervention systems. In this respect, he created an adaptation of the “CAMELS” bank rating tool for microfinance.

He authored a Microfinance and Financial Inclusion Regulation Brief published by the French Development Agency (3rd edition in 2016) as well as about fifteen articles published mainly in the “Techniques Financières & Développement” journal.

He has been an independent consultant since 2002 and a partner of Alia Développement since 2017.