Pawan Bakshi leads the Financial Services for the Poor in India at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Pawan is a Digital Financial Services Specialist with over 25 years of experience. He has driven several large programs across a number of geographies that covered the spectrum of strategy, advocacy, tech and operations for mobile commerce, mobile payments, social projects using mobile money, digital financial inclusion, cross-border remittances, strategic consulting, research, enterprise knowledge management, and process implementation. Pawan was the Associate Director of Digital Finance at MSC where he led the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Agent Network Managers (ANMs) Practice Group.