Megan S. Chapman

Megan is a U.S. lawyer and independent consultant with CGAP's Government and Policy Team, focused primarily on consumer financial protection. She has direct field experience in microfinance through her work with a Kiva-partner MFI in Cameroon. In the area of law and development, she has worked with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization Development Law Service and researched global financial governance reform for the Development Law Unit at University of Pretoria. She has worked on legal empowerment of the poor with the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa, touching on consumer financial protection around mortgage fraud, as well as with the Social and Economic Rights Action Centre in Nigeria and with Global Rights' programs in Burundi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Megan holds a J.D. (summa cum laude) from American University and a B.A. in history (with distinction) from the University of Chicago and has completed graduate-level coursework in development economics at Northwestern University. At American University, she served as the co-editor-in-chief of the Human Rights Brief and the international editor of Sustainable Development Law and Policy. She speaks English, Spanish, French and Italian.