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Welcome To
Financial Access @ Birth

The goal of the FAB Campaign is to bring governments, banks, insurance companies, technology and telecom companies, microfinance organizations , charitable foundations, health-care organizations , educational organizations and academics together to devise best strategies for implementing the plan of providing Financial Access at Birth (FAB) for every child born in the world.

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Founding members

Peter Singer
Professor, Princeton University
Author of "The Life You Can Save"

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Michael Sherraden
Professor of Social Development,
Washington University in St. Louis

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Raghuram Rajan
Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School
Former Chief Economist, IMF

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Vijay Mahajan
Social Entrepreneur
Founder of BASIX, India

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Paul Hudnut
Social Entrepreneur
Teaches at Colorado State University

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Michael Green
Co-author of "Philanthrocapitalism"

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Francisco Gil-Diaz
Executive President, Telefonica, Mexico and Central America
Former Finance Minister, Mexico

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Joshua Coval
Professor of Finance,
Harvard Business School

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Bhagwan Chowdhry
Professor of Finance,
UCLA Anderson School

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Markus Brunnermeier
Professor of Economics,
Princeton University

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Naren Bansal
Entrepreneur,
Founder of Cadenz Inc

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Press Release

Smart Money

The Huffington Post

Interview with Bhagwan Chowdhry


What others are saying

Matthew Bishop,
The Economist Magazine,
Co-author of "Philanthrocapitalism":
"Interesting idea!"

Judy Olian,
Dean, UCLA Anderson School:
"Ingenious Proposal"

Dipak Jain,
Former Dean, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
"Very appealing."

Kate Cochran,
Unitus: "I too love the grandness of
this idea.....bravo for thinking big!!!"

Mark Frazier,
Openworld.com: "Outstanding idea!"

Dan Pallotta,
Author of "Uncharitable": "I love this idea and think it would make a great charity in and of itself."

Florian Ederer,
Professor, UCLA Anderson School: "It would make the life of charities much simpler"

Ajit Rangnekar,
Dean, The Indian School of Business: "really innovative and exciting"

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I support the Financial Access at Birth (FAB) Campaign and urge the world leaders to ensure that every child born in the world starts life with a deposit of US$100 in a bank account at the time of official birth registration.

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