Abhishek Agrawal

Dr. Abhishek Agrawal is Ph.d in Municipal financial reforms, Chartered Accountant and MBA with close to 20 years of experience in Micro-finance sector and development sector. He joined Accion in July 2009 and is currently Accion’s Chief Regional Officer, South Asia. As an Accion representative, Dr. Agrawal serves on the boards of various companies of Accion such as Vindhya E-Infomedia, Swadhaar FinServe, Saija Finance, Dvara KGFS, Aye Finance and others. He comes with extensive experience in financial management, strategy & business planning, and microfinance operations.

Dr. Agrawal had worked as CFO for more than 12 years in several countries, including at Swadhaar Microfinance starting in 2010, in his capacity as global staff for Accion.

In earlier roles, Dr. Agrawal worked with FINCA International as CFO in different affiliates. Prior to that, he acted as an advisor to the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAI), where he worked on number of projects in Municipal reforms & financial management for local municipal bodies.