Esselina Macome

Esselina Macome is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the Financial Sector Deepening Program in Mozambique (FSDMoç) a Program funded by UK Aid from the UK Government and Swedish Government, and she is also a Professor at Eduardo Mondlane University. She was as Executive Director and Member of the Board at the Central Bank from 2005 to 2015. She was responsible for Currency Issuing, Payment systems and Information Technology portfolio, financial inclusion. Her research interests include ICT for development, e-government, gender, and the development and management of information systems in organisations, and Financial Inclusion. She has led a number of studies following the progress of telecentres in Mozambique and has acted as advisor to the Mozambique GRACE researchers.