Chinasa Collins-Ogbuo

2024-2025 Obama Foundation Africa Leader

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Advocacy & Communications Lead, Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access

Nigeria

Chinasa Collins-Ogbuo is the inclusion for all advocacy & communications lead at Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access. Through this initiative, she advocates for policy and regulatory changes to dismantle the multifaceted barriers that exclude the most vulnerable Nigerians from formal financial services. Leveraging reliable data, evidence-based recommendations, data visualization, and storytelling, Chinasa spearheads issue campaigns that drive positive change and action in Nigeria. Chinasa’s leadership focuses on building clear pathways for poor and marginalized Nigerians in financial inclusion, working collaboratively with public sector officials to build successful advocacy campaigns, such as supporting fellow citizens to obtain formal documentation to establish bank accounts.

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