Raunak is an Associate Partner in MSC’s Indonesia Country Program Development Domain. He is responsible for co-creating and implementing technology-enabled financial inclusion projects for public and private sector in developing economies.
He has more than nine years of experience in developing strategies to expand access to finance for the poor and advising financial institutions to implement innovative and cost-effective technology-enabled delivery channels. Over the years, he has advised more than 50 financial services providers and implemented collaborative financial inclusion projects with a range of stakeholders including donors, multi-laterals, private sector players (microfinance institutions, commercial banks), and the government. He is a certified expert in financial inclusion strategy, market research, process re-engineering, product development, project management, and institutional capacity building. His domain-level expertise is in the field of microfinance, digital financial inclusion, and microenterprise financing. He has worked in some of the least-developed and emerging market economies across Asia, Africa, and the Pacific including work in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, Solomon Islands, Tanzania, and Timor-Leste.