About

Danielle Hopkins

Founder

Danielle Hopkins is a global financial inclusion and financial health leader with 20+ years of experience advising governments, regulators, and international organizations on policy, program and product design, implementation to advance inclusive, resilient financial systems.  She has a Masters Degree in International Development and is fluent in Spanish.  She currently resides in Charlottesville, VA.

Technical Areas

  • financial health

  • youth financial inclusion

  • women’s economic empowerment

  • financial capability

  • entrepreneurship

  • digitalization of financial inclusion and financial capability

Functional Areas

  • human centered design (HCD)

  • program design and implementation

  • capacity building/facilitation/consensus building

  • policy and national strategy formulation and implementation

  • monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL)

Track Record

Danielle has experience providing advisory services to a range of stakeholders at the ecosystem and institutional level that work to promote financial inclusion in more than 25 developing countries.

Ecosystem Level: Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP), Interamerican Development Bank (IDB), United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), U.S. Treasury, Office of Technical Assistance (OTA)

Institutional Level: Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR), Accion International, Aflatoun International, CARE International, Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI), ChildFund International, Freedom from Hunger, FHI 360, Making Cents International, Microfinance Opportunities, Reach Global, Save the Children, The SEEP Network, Women’s World Banking