NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Weselina Angelow is a development and financial inclusion expert with two decades of experience in initiatives across Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. She leads the Scale2Save programme, an initiative on financial inclusion in Africa of the World Savings and Retail Banking Institute (WSBI) in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation. Weselina manages WSBI’s learning agenda on small-scale savings where she places focus on understanding the viability of low-balance accounts, the drivers of account usage and factors that improve the financial health of underserved and low-income people. Weselina holds a Master in Economics and Social Sciences from Bonn University and an Executive Master in Responsible Banking from Instituto de Estudios Bursatiles in partnership with London School of Economics and WSBI.