SPEAKERS

Jake Kendall is a co-founder of the DFS Lab. He was formerly a Deputy Director within the Financial Inclusion team at the Gates Foundation where he funded and worked closely with M-Pesa and some of the first wave of successful mobile money and digital banking innovations across Africa and South Asia. Prior, he spent time as an Economist with the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) at the World Bank. Jake is a published researcher and author and holds a PhD in Economics from UC Santa Cruz and a BS Physics from MIT.