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Prega Ramsamy

Prega was the CEO of FinMark Trust and the second Executive Secretary of the Southern African Development Community.  He served as Special Adviser to the State President of Madagascar and was the CEO of the Economic Development Board of Madagascar. He was previously the Head of the Trade Division at the COMESA Secretariat in Zambia working on trade promotion and facilitation.

Qualifications
  • PhD in Development Economics
  • MBA degree
  • Diploma Poste-Universitaire
  • BA (Hons) Economics
Recent Work
Insurance regulation and innovation: An assessment of 8 African insurance markets
To support regulatory authorities in sub-Saharan Africa in promoting inclusive insurance market development, there is a ...
24 November 2022
Data insights in achieving retail growth in Rwanda
The retail and trade (merchant) sector is one of the priority sectors for the ...
14 November 2022
Enhancing identity verification for refugees in Uganda
In Uganda, refugees and asylum seekers struggle to cash out their remittances due to challenging and time-consuming identity verification processes...
21 October 2022
Training improves ability to unlock value from data
Capacity-development is a vital part of the ...
13 October 2022
What will it take to build innovative insurance markets in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Despite the best efforts of sub-Saharan African (SSA) insurers, most African citizens ...
6 October 2022
Lessons on improving remittance access in Africa
Learnings from the ...
23 September 2022
Agriculture an important policy priority for Rwanda
Agriculture plays a major role in the Rwandan economy: close to 75% of the population’s livelihood depends on farming. However, the majority of t...
21 September 2022
The potential of CBDCs for financial inclusion
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9 September 2022
Cenfri joins the Smart Africa Alliance
Kigali, Monday 29th August 2022  – The ...
29 August 2022
Responsive and responsible regulation
The value of non-legally binding guidance Regulation is ...
11 August 2022
CBDC for emerging markets: realities and expectations
Cenfri has deepened its work on CBDC amid growing interest from central banks ...
4 August 2022
What is data-driven decision making and what does it mean for Rwanda?
Nothing illustrates the incredible power of data-driven decision-making more than the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Lamenting the disparit...
25 July 2022
Holistic risk solutions for MSME resilience in Egypt
Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in Egypt Micro, small and medium-sized ent...
21 July 2022
Building a data skills foundation is necessary to achieve meaningful digitalisation
One of the reasons so much emphasis is placed on digitalisation is...
15 July 2022
Private sector partnerships for MSME resilience: Learnings from Africa
Opportunities await insurers and tech providers who are willing to work together ...
8 July 2022
Insurance Innovation Dialogue
About the Insurance Innovation Dialogue  To support insurance regulatory authorities ...
6 July 2022
The role of different partners for effective MSME insurance
Insurers can partner with digital platforms, lenders and insurance aggregators to offer better products that...
24 May 2022
Delivering remittances at the last mile
The role of...
12 May 2022
Applying a gender lens to trade finance
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are considered engines of economic growth and development, especially in developing ...
3 May 2022
Data scientists contribute to data-driven policymaking in Rwanda
The ...
20 April 2022
Enhancing risk assessment processes for improved remittance access
Early insights from IFAD’s Financing Facility for Remittances and Cenfri Our work wi...
12 April 2022
The role of women and finance in climate action
A changing climate affects everyone, but it’s the world’s poorest and most vulnerable, predominantly women and girls, who bear the brunt of env...
8 March 2022
Opportunities for remittance-linked insurance products in SSA
A demand-side perspective of the risk management and resilience needs of remittance senders from South Africa to G...
22 January 2022
Digitalizing farm to table supply chains in Asia
On-demand transport services and insurtech  Whether as a customer or...
25 October 2021
Empowering people to solve problems that matter
How Cenfri makes systemic change happen In helping to build...
21 October 2021
Consumer protection in digital finance
The authors of this report would like to acknowledge the support of the International Dialogue on Consumer Protection...
18 November 2022
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