Speaking Engagements

✓ Third OECD/CVM Regional Seminar on Financial Education Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean, Presentation "Digitalization in Action: Opportunities and Challenges" in Sao Paulo, Brazil (November 12-13, 2018)
✓ SOCAP 2018, Panel to launch Scaling Pathways publication: Government Partnerships to Scale in San Francisco, CA (October 23-26, 2018)
✓ Grand Challenges Annual Meeting, Speaker in multiple panels on Innovation to Scale led by USAID in Berlin, Germany (October 15-18, 2018)
​✓ The Sacramento Seminar political lecture series talk "The complexity of poverty: Understanding the financial lives of the world's poorest families" in San Francisco, CA (July 27, 2018)
✓ Forum to Advance Women's Leadership in the International Development Sector, Female Founders of Social Enterprises Set to Scale: What Support is Critical for Greater Impact and to Personally Thrive, Panel in Washington DC (June 6, 2018)
✓​​ Boston's Fvckup Nights, Tales of Digital Disasters, in Cambridge, MA (Apr. 25, 2018)
✓​ W20 Financial Inclusion Technical Expert Focus Group and Dialogue in Washington DC (Apr. 19, 2018)
✓ World Bank Group / IMF 2018 Spring Meetings, Moving from Evidence to Action: How Are CSO’s Working to Encourage Government Uptake of the Graduation Approach? in Washington, DC (Apr. 19, 2018)
✓​ Banco Central de Costa Rica, Financial Inclusion internal training and presentation (with focus on innovation) in San José, Costa Rica (Oct. 30, 2017)
✓​ Global Innovation Week, Million Lives Club Member & Presenter during Prosperity Pitch and Innovator Panel in Washington DC (Sept 28-29, 2017)
✓ Yale School of Management Social Impact Lab, Guest Lecturer in New Haven, CT (Sept. 20, 2017)
✓ EduFin Summit 2017: Financial Capability and Education, Presenter and Panelist in Mexico City, Mexico (June 15-16, 2017)
✓ Inter-American Development Bank Virtual Seminar: Financial Education for Social Inclusion, Presenter, Virtually (February 8, 2017)
✓ 6th Annual Mobiles for Education Alliance International Symposium: From Innovation to Impact, Presenter in Washington, DC (October 18-20, 2016) 
✓ What Works Global Summit: Putting Evidence to Work, Speaker and Panel Curator in London, England (September 26-28, 2016)
✓ Finclusión Digital, Public Policy Panel Moderator in Bogotá, Colombia (July 14, 2016)
✓ Women Deliver, Presenter at Appy Hour in Copenhagen, Denmark (May 17, 2016)
✓ IDRC's Expanding Financial Inclusion to Enhance Livelihoods, Speaker in Ottawa, Canada (May 6, 2016)
✓ Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Visa's 10th Annual Financial Literacy Summit, Panelist: The Future of Financial Education in Chicago (April 20, 2016)
​​​✓ Skoll World Forum Convening Panelist for Strategic Use of Technology to Scale Social Impact:  how do you make the right choice? in Oxford, UK (April 12-15, 2016)
​✓ United Nations Winter Youth Assembly in New York City (February 17-18, 2016)
✓ UNCDF and UN Women ThinkShop: Financial Inclusion for Women's Economic Empowerment in New York (February 5, 2016)
✓ A Change in Behavior: Innovations in Financial Capability Event Panelist in Washington, DC (November 4, 2015)
✓ Launching Your Globetrotting Career Jobbatical.com event in New York, NY (October 27, 2015)
✓ ANDE Annual Conference panel discussion Crowdfunding for SGBs: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions with NESsT and Kiva in Tarrytown, NY (October 2, 2015)
✓ Screening and discussion of the Skylight Pictures documentary film Disruption at the U.S. Department of Treasury in Washington, D.C. (September 25, 2015)
✓ TEDxNiš presentation of Disruptive Ideas Change the World in Niš, Serbia (May 23, 2015)
✓ eLearning Africa: 10th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education & Training at the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (May 21, 2015)
✓ Skoll World Forum and Sundance Institute screening of Disruption panel discussion in Oxford, UK (April 15, 2015)
✓ World Sustainable Development Teach In Day lecture in Belgrade, Serbia (March 25, 2015)
✓ Social Impact Award 2015 Kick-Off Event - Social Innovation in Belgrade, Serbia (February 11, 2015)
✓ Sustainable Development and Natural Disasters in Southeastern Europe 2014 Conference, Microfinance as a recovery tool for the poor following natural disasters in Belgrade, Serbia (June 5, 2014)
✓ Faculty of Political Sciences Globalization and Social Policy Course Lecture, Poverty and Social Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean in Belgrade, Serbia (May 17, 2014)
✓ SEE ICT's Startit Fest - Social Change Hackathon Opening in Belgrade, Serbia (May 16, 2014)
✓ American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Moscow Presentation on Youth Unemployment as a Cause of Global Poverty (March 28, 2014)
✓ Promotion of Financial Education Among Youth: International and Russian Experience in Moscow, Russia (March 27, 2014)
✓ TEDxSemesterAtSea in San Diego, California (January 9, 2014) - speaker
✓ Moving Financial Capability Forward: Innovation, Scale and Impact (Citi & Financial Times) in Hong Kong (December 4-5, 2013) - speaker
✓ WSA Global Congress - Colombo, Sri Lanka (October 23-26, 2013) - speaker and recipient of the World Summit Youth Award in the category Education for All, and finalist for the European Youth Award 
✓ IV Congreso de Educación Financiera - Bogotá, Colombia (October 10-11, 2013) - speaker and recipient of the award for financial education materials for low-income people (Concurso interamericano de experiencias en materia de educación financiera - ganador en categoría "población de bajos recursos o no bancarizado")
​✓ The App Date in Bogotá, Colombia (October 1, 2013) - speaker
✓ IX Proyecto Capital Workshop in Cusco, Peru (September 6, 2013) - speaker
✓ Innovations for Poverty Action conference Evidencia sobre Innovaciones en Capacidad Financiera May 29-30, 2013 (Lima, Perú) - speaker and research matchmaking
✓ Lecture Series at the Faculty of Political Sciences: undergraduate lecture Sustainable Habits for Sustainable Development; graduate course Financial Inclusion for Poverty Alleviation Belgrade Serbia (March 27, 2013) - lecturer
✓ Leveraging Opportunities to Encourage Financial Inclusion in Johannesburg, South Africa (June 21, 2012) - speaker
✓ VII Proyecto Capital Workshop in Cusco, Peru (April 26, 2012) - speaker
✓ Instituto Cervantes in Belgrade, Serbia (October 19, 2011) - speaker
​✓ World Resources Forum in Davos, Switzerland (Sept. 21, 2011) - speaker
✓ Trening za karijering in Belgrade, Serbia (May 22, 2011) - speaker
✓ Dan održivog razvoja in Belgrade Serbia (May 10, 2011) - speaker
✓ Univerzitet i održivi razvoj in Belgrade, Serbia (April 21, 2011) - speaker
✓ International Sustainable Development Research Conference 2009 (Utrecht, Netherlands) - speaker

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Visa Inc.'s Financial Literacy Summit in Chicago

Closing panel of USAID's Global Innovation Week in Washington, DC

Innovations for Poverty Action conference in Lima, Peru

Panelist at the 2016 Skoll World Forum in Oxford, UK

Financial Education Among Youth - Conference in Moscow, Russia

At TEDxSemesterAtSea with coach Reci Schmellick

The App Date Social in Bogotá, Colombia

Lecture at the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade, Serbia

Conferences

At BBVA's Financial Education Summit in Mexico City, Mexico

At the WSYA in Sri Lanka, ©PhilippBenedikt/ AlexanderMattersberger

Presenting ColombiaLISTA in the field in Alvarado, Colombia

Hosting the closing of USAID's Municipal Economic Growth Activity program in Belgrade, Serbia

Field visit preparations in Johannesburg, South Africa

✓ We The Future Event, September 25, 2018 (New York, NY)
✓ MIT Solve Challenge Finals 2018, September 23, 2018 (New York, NY)
✓ Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship 2018, April 10-13, 2018 (Oxford, UK)
✓ We The Future, September 21, 2017 (New York, NY)
✓ TEDGlobal>NYC, September 20, 2017 (New York, NY)
✓ Social Good Summit, September 17, 2017 (New York, NY)
✓ Columbia's 6th Annual FinTech, DFS & Payments Summit, June 8-9, 2017 (New York, NY)
✓ Harvard Marshall Forum - 70th Anniversary Celebration, June 3, 2017 (Boston, MA)
✓ MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology's Being Material Symposium, April 21-22, 2017 (Boston, MA)
✓ Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship 2017 Apr. 4-7, 2017 (Oxford, UK)
✓ Social Enterprise Conference at Harvard University, March 25-26, 2017 (Boston, MA)
​✓ 2016 Institute of International Finance Annual Membership Meeting, Participant in the IIF Financial Inclusion Roundtable: From Access to Use, October 6, 2016 (Washington, DC)
​✓ Startup Bootcamp FinTech DemoDay, July 20, 2016 (New York, NY)
✓ Global Entrepreneurship Summit, June 24-26, 2016 (Palo Alto, CA)
✓ Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneur's Metrics from the Ground Up Conference, June 14-16, 2016 (Washington DC, USA)
✓ CGAP, Ford Foundation and MasterCard Foundation: Graduation Leadership Summit and Global Learning Event Dec. 7-9, 2015 (Washington DC, USA)
✓ Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship 2016 Apr. 12-15, 2016 (Oxford, UK)
✓ Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship 2015 Apr. 14-17, 2015 (Oxford, UK)
✓ OECD High-level conference on global and European trends in financial education 2014 (Istanbul, Turkey)
✓ Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship 2014 (Oxford, UK)
✓ ANSPE Foro Estrategias innovadoras para aliviar la pobreza - Muhammad Yunus 2013 (Bogotá, Colombia)
✓ V Fórum Banco Central sobre Inclusao Financiera 2013 (Fortaleza, Brasil)
✓ BID & Comfama II Foro Base Internacional por el desarrollo de los mercados de la base de la pirámide en América Latina y el Caribe 2013 (Medellin, Colombia)
✓ Foro Unidos por la por la Inversión Social 2013 (Bogotá, Colombia)
✓ Taller de Educación Financiera Proyecto Capital 2013 (Bogotá, Colombia)
✓ Inclusión Financiera de Receptores de Transferencias Monetarias Condicionadas 2012 (Santa Marta, Colombia)
✓ IDB & FOMIN 2012 Foromic (Barbados)
✓ Foro Unidos por la Innovación Financiera 2012 (Bogotá, Colombia)
✓ III Congreso de la Industria de las Microfinanzas 2012 (Medellin, Colombia)
✓ II Congreso Protección al Consumidor y Educación Financiera 2012 (Bogotá, Colombia)
✓ New Leaders Conference 2011 (Belgrade, Serbia)
✓ 3E - Energy, Economy and Ecology Conference 2011 (Belgrade, Serbia)
✓ Sustainable Reforms for Sustainable Development – Kopaonik Business Forum 2011 (Kopaonik, Serbia)   
✓ Towards a Sustainable Dialogue for Improving the Application of Environmental Protection Policy 2010 (Belgrade, Serbia)
✓ International Sustainable Development Research Conference 2009 (Utrecht, Netherlands)
✓ MIT Global Poverty Initiative: Millennium Campus Conference 2008 (Boston, MA)
✓ Tufts EPIIC Symposium on Global Poverty and Inequality 2008 (Medford, MA) 
✓ Public Relations Student Society of America’s National Conference 2004 (New York, NY)