Stefan Staschen
Stefan is an economist specializing in access to finance and technology. He is a leading expert on the use of technology such as mobile phones to improve financial access and on developing appropriate regulatory frameworks for microfinance institutions (MFIs). He started his career working with GTZ, first at the Head Office in Germany (1997-99), and then as a long-term advisor to the Central Bank of Uganda (2000/01). In 2001, he established his own consulting firm, Inclusive Financial Systems. After three years in London, he spent six years (2004-2010) in Nairobi, Kenya, before relocating to Istanbul, Turkey, in early 2010. During these years he worked for a range of clients including CGAP, Bankable Frontier Associates, the World Bank, GTZ, the IMF, Women’s World Banking, and the Gates Foundation. Since January 2006, Stefan has worked as a policy advisory consultant to CGAP and since early 2010 as an associate at Bankable Frontiers Associates.
Stefan has been invited as a speaker to many international conferences (e.g., the African Banking Technology Conference, the African Microfinance Conference, the Krakow Policy Forum on Microfinance Law and Regulation in CEE & NIS, among others) and has been a regular trainer on mobile banking, microfinance regulation, financial consumer protection, and other access to finance topics (e.g., at the IDLO training courses, School of Applied Microfinance, and since 2008 annually at the Micro Banking Summer Academy in Frankfurt). He holds a PhD in regulatory impact assessment in microfinance from the London School of Economics.
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