Ignacio Mas - Consultant on mobile money and technology-enabled models for financial inclusion
Ignacio Mas - Consultant on mobile money and technology-enabled models for financial inclusion
About me
I have been Senior Advisor in the Financial Services for the Poor program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and at the Technology Program at CGAP. Previously I was Director of Global Business Strategy at Vodafone Group, Executive Vicepresident of Marketing and Account Management at DoCoMo interTouch, and Senior Manager responsible for telecoms investments in Europe for Intel Capital.
I have undergraduate degrees in maths and economics from MIT and a PhD in economics from Harvard University. I have been Adjunct Professor at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.
I am currently a Senior Fellow at the Fletcher School's Center for Emerging Market Enterprises at Tufts University, and an Associate with Bankable Frontier.
Instructional videos
These are short instructional videos I have made in the style of the Khan Academy:
Ten practical ways to enhance the mobile money offer [From Mobile MoneyAsia blog, 21 May 2013]
Here is a collection of concrete ideas I’ve put forth in the
past to make mobile money more useful for customers. Sadly ...
Posted May 21, 2013, 6:11 AM by Ignacio Mas
Fine-tuning money management concepts [From Center forFinancial Inclusion blog, with P Mukherjee, 8 May 2013]
We recently completed extensive field work on people’s money
management practices in India and Bangladesh, funded by The ...
Posted May 8, 2013, 9:21 AM by Ignacio Mas
A system solution to the problem of direct deposits [From MMU blog,
2 May 2013, by Philip Levin]
We received some great comments from readers in response to
the recent MMU
Spotlight on direct deposits. Among them, was a ...
Posted May 2, 2013, 2:37 AM by Ignacio Mas
Unburdening phone menus [From Mobile MoneyAsia blog, 27 April 2013]
Disruptive innovation typically occurs when market outsiders
conceive of a service with a radically simplified user experience, offer it at
a much lower ...
Posted Apr 27, 2013, 2:38 AM by Ignacio Mas
A cash-lite world: safe, cheap and convenient payments for all [From The Guardian,Global Development Professionals Network, with David Porteous, 24
April 2013] In the past two decades, the world's information grid has
expanded massively. Digital signals are all ...
Posted Apr 24, 2013, 8:42 AM by Ignacio Mas
Measuring (and missing) financial inclusion [From FinancialAccess Initiative blog, 5 April 2013]
If there’s a growth industry in financial inclusion, it’s in
data and measurement. And if there’s something experts are increasingly ...
Posted Apr 9, 2013, 11:28 PM by Ignacio Mas
Situating financial decisions [From IMTFI blog,
27 March 2013] Understanding customers’ purchase decisions is the core of
the marketing challenge. We know it’s about segmenting in order to get more
granular customer ...
Posted Mar 27, 2013, 11:08 PM by Ignacio Mas
Will digital books rule any more than digital money? [From SavingsRevolution blog, 27 March 2013] Are you an avid book reader and haven’t got a Kindle?
You may want to try it. Digital consumption of books has improved ...
Posted Mar 27, 2013, 11:42 AM by Ignacio Mas
Mobile money agents in Tanzania: How busy, how exclusive? [From CGAP blog, 19 March 2013, with Agathamarie John; see original post to view graphs] The Financial Sector Deepening Trust of Tanzania (FSDT) undertook
a census of cash outlets in ...
Posted Mar 19, 2013, 9:53 AM by Ignacio Mas
Bring in the tech nerds to help expand financial inclusion [From World Bank
PSD blog, 13 March 2013]
It has become mainstream to think that digital technologies
will have a significant role to play in addressing the financial inclusion
challenge ...
Posted Mar 13, 2013, 10:01 AM by Ignacio Mas