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Hire Dr. Erin B. T.

Netherlands

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Anthropologist specializing in financial behaviour and insights

Profile Summary

I am Co-Founder and Managing Director of Finthropology, a research agency that helps organizations to understand people’s financial behaviour and innovate to meet their needs. We apply our cutting-edge knowledge of human behaviour to help create successful financial products, programs and policies for a human world—and a fast-changing market. We work for financial service providers, universities, government organizations and NGOs. Projects we have done include: * Payment choices in Brazil with a few to the development of CBDCs * Farmers and digital financial services in the Philippines, Laos and Cambodia * Customers' use of BNPL in the USA * Collaboration among credit unions in the USA * Women's use of financial services in Switzerland I hold a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Sydney, Australia (2009). I have published extensively on financial behaviour, including the book "Customer-Centric Innovation in Finance" (2024, Kogan Page) co-authored with Dr. Anette Broløs.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Personal Finance & Budgeting
• ☆ Consumer Behavior & Theory
• ☆ Market Research
• ☆ Qualitative Market Research
• ☆ Innovation Management

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting

Writing Non-Medical Regulatory Writing, Technical Writing, Creative Writing

Research Market Research, User Research, Meta-Research, Feasibility Study, Technology Scouting, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Business Strategy Consulting, Digital Strategy Consulting

Work Experience

Managing Director

Finthropology

January 2021 - Present

Associate

Western Sydney University

January 2021 - Present

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Lisbon

July 2011 - June 2017

Lecturer

University of Sydney

January 2008 - December 2011

Research Assistant

University of Newcastle

January 2003 - August 2004

Education

PhD

The University of Sydney

June 2003 - June 2009

Certifications

• PhD

  The University of Sydney

  January 2025 - Present

Publications

BOOK CHAPTER

Erin B. Taylor, Anette Broløs, Heather A. Horst (2025). How to Talk About Money: The Portable Kit as a Research Approach .

Isaac Lyne, Rida Akzar, Erin B. Taylor (2023). Gender and the social impacts of rural mobile finance .