Matthew Saal

Matthew Saal is a Managing Director with ALMA, deploying creative capital for sustainable development. ALMA partners with inspiring entrepreneurs building high impact businesses around the world.

Previously, Matthew led digital finance and credit infrastructure teams in the International Finance Corporation’s Financial Institutions Group. During 2018-2019 Matthew was a Presidential Fellow with the World Bank Finance Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice, focused on fintech policy and fintech for inclusion. Prior to joining IFC, Matthew was Associate Director in the Local Currency and Capital Markets Development initiative of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 2010-2016.

Matthew has had a longstanding focus on inclusive financial services and financial technology, including at a private equity fund focused on African banks, LabMorgan (the venture arm of JPMorgan), an early stage fintech startup, the International Monetary Fund, and Morgan Stanley.

Matthew holds an A.B. in Chemistry from Princeton University and an M.Phil. in Economics from Oxford University (Balliol College), where he studied as a Marshall Scholar. He has published in the areas of fintech, banking, macroeconomic policy, financial systems structure, trade, and monetary policy instruments, and is co-author of Fintech and the Future of Finance: Market and Policy Implications (World Bank Group, 2023).