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Doubell Chamberlain


Doubell is the founder and managing director of Cenfri. He has extensive experience in development strategy with a particular interest in digital transformation and financial sector development. His recent experience covers data for development, digital governance and transformation strategies, financial inclusion, microinsurance, AML/CFT, distribution of financial services and regulatory framework design. He is also a leader in conceptualising diagnostic methodology and employing the diagnostic tool to answer policy questions and to formulate evidence-based, consultative, market-development strategies.

Doubell has worked extensively across Africa, Latin America, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

A development economist by training, Doubell is a specialist in financial inclusion innovation, financial sector policy and regulatory strategy, access to financial services and making markets work for low-income individuals.

Qualifications
  • MCom Development Economics (cum laude), Stellenbosch University
  • BCom (Honours) in Economics (cum laude), Stellenbosch University and Free University of Amsterdam
  • BCom (Mathematical statistics), Stellenbosch University
Recent Work by Doubell Chamberlain
Why DPI needs more than a one-size-fits-all approach
2025 is a pivotal year in global development, as we are only five years away from the current deadline for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...
Building the fundamentals of a welfare-enhancing digitalised economy
Digitalisation per se has marginal impact; the crux is the way it is leveraged and implemented. We need a better understanding of how digi...
Then and now: Is Ethiopia at an inflection point after 15 years of insurance underdevelopment?
Very little has changed in the Ethiopian insurance industry over the last fifteen years but there is a po...
Reaching for the future, searching for a vision for Africa’s digital economy
Digitalisation is disrupting markets and economic structures globally, and even advanced economies do not have a clear view of the new economy...