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Aude de Montesquiou is Senior Advisor at BIGD. She works on scaling economic inclusion through digital innovations and provides overall support in strategy, fundraising and communications. Before joining BIGD in 2021, Aude spent 15 years at the World Bank Group, first at CGAP and then as Social Protection Specialist at the World Bank’s Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice. From 2008 to 2016 Aude was the Task Team Leader for the CGAP-Ford Foundation Graduation Program, overseeing the design and implementation of 10 pilot programs in eight countries and coordinating quantitative and qualitative research. From 2016-2020, Aude co-led the start-up of the Partnership for Economic Inclusion at the World Bank, a Global Partnership supporting the scaling of economic inclusion programs through governments. She jointly led the team that produced the World Bank’s State of Economic Inclusion 2021 and is the author of many seminal publications and technical guides on economic inclusion and graduation.