How Money Helps Gender Equality in Cambodia | Serey Chea | The Asian Woman

Serey Chea explains why she used blockchain FinTech to develop Asia's first 'digital currency' Bakong in her country of Cambodia. As Director-General of its central bank, she led the initiative for the peer-to-peer payment system which combines e-wallets, mobile payments, online banking and financial applications within a single interface. She breaks down how blockchain works and explain why it's revolutionary for improving financial gender inclusion for women.
She passionately advocates how financial independence for women is vital as a means towards gender equality. She draws from her own life experience and unanticipated divorce after 20 years of marriage as example.
You don't want to miss this heartfelt chat with Serey.
WHO IS SEREY CHEA?
An economist and a trained accountant, Serey is also the chairwoman of the Credit Bureau Cambodia Ltd., the first and only privately run credit sharing system in Cambodia.
She is a vocal proponent for greater use of the local currency to promote the country's greater independence on economic and monetary policy. As chairwoman of the Clearing House Operation Committee, she led the Bakong Project to create a peer-to-peer payment system using blockchain technology that combines e-wallets, mobile payments, online banking and financial applications within a single interface.
Serey is an ardent champion of women's economic empowerment and financial inclusion. She has initiated financial literacy campaigns in Cambodia, is a member of the Southeast Asia Advisory Council of Women World Banking and served as Alliance for Financial Inclusion’s (AFI’s) high-level Gender and Women’s Financial Inclusion Committee (GWFIC). She was awarded Gender Advocacy Champion Award 2018 by AFI in recognition of her work in bridging the financial inclusion gender gap.
She can be found regularly speaking at international conferences and is a member of the Young Global Leaders, Class of 2019, a forum of Young Global Leaders created by the World Economic Forum. She is an Asia 21 Young Leader, Class of 2017, a member of young societal leader, Class of 2018. Serey was awarded as an honoree of ZICO ASEAN 40 Under 40 in recognition of her progressive leadership in the banking industry in Cambodia.
Serey actively works with charity. She is a board member of Smile Cambodia (providing free surgery to cleft and burn children), and Khmer Sight Foundation (providing cataract surgery for underprivileged people). She is a co-founder and chairwoman of Raksa Koma Foundation that focuses on the welfare of underprivileged Cambodian children and raises awareness on mental and physical disability. In 2018, she was catalogued amongst 25 impactful philanthropists in ASEAN by the Asia Philanthropy Circle.
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