Olga Morawczynski

Olga manages a portfolio of projects focusing on financial inclusion at The MasterCard Foundation. She has spent close to a decade actively working in the financial inclusion sector. She has engaged closely with low income clients to better understand their financial needs, and financial service providers to design and scale impactful solutions. Olga has published her work widely, both through peer reviewed journals and industry focused publications. She has been cited by popular media periodicals, including CNN and the Economist. Olga has a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from the University of Edinburgh, and continues to actively innovate in the industry, engaging providers, regulators and customers to push the needle on financial inclusion.

By Olga Morawczynski

Research

Poor People Using Mobile Financial Services

Insights into how poor people use M-PESA, its impact on their lives, and some unexpected consequences.
Blog

What You Don’t Know about M-PESA

Using the mobile as a platform, they plan to create developmental services that penetrate other spheres —m-health, agribusiness. They further predicted that the mobile will soon begin to revolutionize these other spaces as well.
Blog

Why Has M-PESA Become So Popular in Kenya?

Despite the cash float problems, the majority of customers in both the urban and rural areas assert that they prefer M-PESA over other money transfer services. This means that M-PESA must be offering them some kind of substantial benefit.