Maria Moreno Sanchez

Ms. Maria Moreno Sanchez joins the Humphrey Fellowship in Finance & Banking, as the first Peruvian female being awarded in this area of expertise.

She has devoted her career to banking and insurance regulation initially at the Department of Regulation of SBS Peru, where she looked at prudential regulation for retail financial markets. Later, she became an associate at Miranda & Amado, counseling global banks to carry out their operations in Peru. She joined the financial inclusion coordination of the Midis Perú, her work helped to open accounts to 1.2 million women across rural areas and incentivize the opening of a network of agents to serve them. In 2014, she joined the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) to manage the Country Policy Profiles of 64 countries and created partnerships . She co-created the AFI financial inclusion strategy for Latin America (FILAC), and managed the SME finance working group.

Back in Peru, since 2017, she has consulted with AFI, the Better than Cash Alliance (UNCDF), Inter-American Development Bank, Visa International, CGAP, the Gates Foundation, the World Food Programme, CGAP and the World Bank. Ms. Moreno has advised Banco de la Nación to enhance Cuenta DNI, and counseled policymakers, such as the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Peru and the Central Bank of Belize by proposing National Plans to Implement National Financial Inclusion Strategies until 2030.

Ms Moreno graduated as a lawyer with the highest honors from the PUCP in Perú, Maria holds a Msc. Regulation, Financial and Commercial Law from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (Merit) -as scholar of the Santander Foundation and the LSE. She speaks: Spanish, English and is versed in Portuguese.

During her Humphrey Fellowship, she intends to explore the U.S. approach to regulate AI in the financial consumer protection regimes of the Global South.