Yasmin Bin-Humam currently supports CGAP’s work on gender equality in financial inclusion, focusing on gender disaggregated data and formation of country coalitions. She is also exploring the contours and impacts of microfinance digitization. Most recently, she led CGAP’s work stream on the nexus of gender norms and financial sector regulation and supervisory practices, and supported institutional change management for CGAP’s application of a gender lens across all CGAP work programs. Prior, Yasmin launched and managed the FinEquity Community of Practice on women’s financial inclusion, led exploration of women’s participation in informal online commerce, and shepherded CGAP’s initial diagnostics of social norms barriers to women’s financial inclusion.
Before joining CGAP, Yasmin developed indicators measuring women’s equality under the law for the World Bank’s Women, Business, and the Law project and contributed to publications on legal barriers to women’s economic empowerment. Her previous research includes the historical evolution of labor and family law reform in countries around the world, and she has compiled legislation on banking, nonbank financial institutions, and consumer protection regulations. Her earlier work experience spans the public, private, and nongovernmental sectors.
Yasmin has Juris Doctorate and Master’s degrees from Georgetown University and a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard.