GIW 2017

Shailee is a development professional with over 15 years of experience working at the intersection of finance, technology, and global development. In her work with FHI360 and Chemonics, Shailee held a variety of leadership roles in projects related to mobile banking, financial in... Read More →

Vyjayanti Desai is the Program Manager for Identification for Development (ID4D), a multi-sectoral initiative of the World Bank Group. Vyjayanti is focused on scaling up and operationalizing the ID4D initiative and collaborating with key external partners. Prior to joining the ID... Read More →

Catherine Highet is a technical advisor with FHI 360’s mSTAR project, working to expand awareness and create solutions around digital identity for the world’s poor. For more than seven years, Highet has worked in information communications technology for development initiatives f... Read More →

Niall McCann provides programming and advisory support to UNDP Country Offices engaged in providing electoral assistance. A number of those countries have requested support from UNDP in the rollout of either biometric voter registration systems, or national identity schemes, to w... Read More →

Emrys Schoemaker is a researcher and strategist with a background in international development programming. Emrys’ research interests are on the use of social media in resource constrained environments, and the social implications of their use. Emrys is currently writing up a PhD thesis at the London School of Economics in International Development that looks at the relationship between mobile social media use and identity, specifically religious and gender identity in Pakistan. He is particularly interested in how technology design and affordances interact with cultural norms and values to generate new social practices. Emrys has over a decade of experience in communications for international development programming as the Director for Innovation and Technology at iMedia Associates, a development communications consultancy, and as a consultant to institutions including the British... Read More →

As the M4D Digital Identity Senior Insights Manager, Matt Wilson is responsible for providing the program and its stakeholders with intelligence and analysis on the opportunities within the Digital Identity sector, with a focus on emerging use cases, business models and social im... Read More →