Full Name
Suzanne van Ballekom
Job Title
Deputy Global Team Lead- Digital Financial Inclusion and Women's Economic Empowerment
Company
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Speaker Bio
Suzanne brings extensive experience in designing and implementing humanitarian and development programs across both the public and private sectors, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected settings. She specialises in financially inclusive humanitarian payments (cash transfers), Government-to-person payments, digital financial inclusion, women's economic empowerment, and livelihoods programming. Currently, Suzanne serves as the Deputy Global Team Lead for Digital Financial Inclusion and Women's Economic Empowerment at the UN World Food Programme (WFP). In this role, she has defined WFP’s value proposition for financially inclusive payments to women, integrating it into the core of WFP’s strategic vision. Her operational expertise spans across countries such as Somalia, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, and the Caribbean.
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