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Lene M.P. Hansen\u00a0has worked for 25 years as a field-based consultant in inclusive financial sector development and microfinance. Since 2005, she has specialised in expanding access to finance in fragile and conflict-affected environments. She has focused on the financial inclusion of migrants and refugee populations since 2015, when she began the research resulting in the global\u00a0Guidelines for FSPs<\/a>, and has since worked with FSPs in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Mozambique, and Uganda to financially include foreign-born and displaced residents. Lene has served in longer-term project management positions in Nepal (1995-99), Uganda (1999-2003) and Palestine (2007) and provides shorter-term technical assistance in \u2018refugee-readiness\u2019 for FSPs, project design and appraisals, portfolio reviews and evaluations for donor agencies, investors and central banks; as well as training, performance monitoring and industry building support to microfinance industries primarily in Africa and the MENA region.<\/p>\n Based in South Africa, Lene holds a Master\u2019s in Political Science from Copenhagen University and has been a visiting fellow at the Feinstein International Center of Tuft\u2019s University, USA. She served on CGAP\u2019s SmartAid Review Board in 2011 and is a member of the e-MFP Advancing Refugee Finance Action Group and the Danish Microfinance Forum.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#f4f4f4″ custom_padding=”42px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.25.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”1px|||||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\nBlog posts by Lene<\/h2>\n