Issue 3 - What balance between financial sustainability and social issues in the microfinance sector?

 Fouad Abdelmoumni is an economist, holds a diploma in development economics from the Mohammed V University in Rabat and an MBA-equivalent diploma from the Institut supérieur de commerce et d’administration des entreprises in Casablanca. Fouad Abdelmoumni was formerly Vice President of the Moroccan Human Rights Association and is still very involved in Morocco’s civil society. He has been CEO of Al Amana since it was founded in 1997 and also sits on several boards of directors >> Download the Fouad Abdelmoumni's paper

Jacques Attali is a French economist, writer and senior civil servant. He was an advisor to former President François Mitterrand, and Chairman of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He is the founder and Managing Director of PlaNet Finance – a pioneering international solidarity foundation active in the field of microfinance >> Download the Jacques Attali's paper

Jérôme Audran holds a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and is a specialist in measuring the social responsibility of microfinance players. He previously worked on the social and solidarity economy and in the Business Development departments of private companies >> Download the Jérôme Audran and Yannis Berthouzoz's paper

Yannis Berthouzoz graduated in Economic and Social Science from the University of Geneva and takes a particular interest in socially responsible investment. Prior to joining Symbiotics, he worked at UNCTAD and in the pension fund industry. Jérôme Audran and Yannis Berthouzoz are analysts at Symbiotics S.A., a consulting company for microfinance investment vehicles  >> Download the Jérôme Audran and Yannis Berthouzoz's paper 

Esther Duflo is currently a professor of economics and Co-Director of MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). In 2008-2009 she has been the first person to hold the “Knowledge against Poverty” chair at the Collège de France – this chair is supported by Agence française de développement >> Download the Esther Duflo and William Parienté's paper

Iris Lanao Flores is CEO of FINCA Peru. She is also involved in a number of national and international networks and regularly intervenes on practices and issues that are specific to the methodology of village banking. Iris Lanao Flores holds a Masters Degree inc Latin American Development from Stanford University and a Masters Degree in Operational Research from the London School of Economics >> Download the Iris Lanao Flores and Philippe Serres's paper

As Head of investments of the “Global Financial Markets” Department at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), André Laude is in charge of the specific support provided to the microfinance sector. Prior to holding this position, he worked for IFC in the financial sector in Southern Europe and the Middle East, after over fifteen years’ experience of financial markets in Wall Street, London, Mexico and Casablanca >> Download the André Laude's paper

Elizabeth Littlefield is a director of the World Bank and the chief executive officer of CGAP. Previously she was the managing director of JP Morgan’s Emerging Markets Capital Markets in London. As such, she was responsible for all bond offerings, structured financing, and credit ratings for emerging Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. She has served on many corporate and nonprofit boards and founded several not-for-profit organizations. A U.S. and U.K. citizen, she is a graduate of Brown University in Rhode Island and also studied at the École Nationale de Sciences Politiques in Paris >> Download the Elizabeth Littlefield and Luc Rigouzzo's paper

Élodie Parent began working at Agence française de développement in 2004 in Morocco where she was in charge of developing microfinance activity. She is now an investment officer at Proparco where she coordinates the microfinance unit which has committed some 50 million euros of financing to the sector >> Download the Élodie Parent's paper

William Parienté is an assistant professor at Louvain Catholic University (UCL) and an associate researcher at J-PAL Europe. His research focuses on access to credit, and problems relating to poverty and health in developing countries >> Download the William Parienté and Esther Duflo's paper

 Luc Rigouzzo holds degrees in both agronomy and finance and began his career as an agronomy engineer in Mexico. In 1995, he joined the cabinet of the French Minister for Cooperation and then the IFC in 1997 where he was in charge of structured finance in Brazil, Argentina and Central America. He has been Chief Executive Officer of Proparco since 2006 and has redefined the company’s strategy to focus on infrastructure and the financial sector in Africa, equity investment for SME financing in the Mediterranean, and combating climate change in major emerging countries  >> Download the Luc Rigouzzo and Elizabeth Littlefield's paper
 

Philippe Serres is a Microfinance Investment Officer at AFD and has ten years of experience in development and microfinance. After a short experience in the British NGO ActionAid, he worked for two years at the European Commission Delegation in Peru as a project officer. Back to Europe, he worked for six years in the microfinance rating agency Planet Rating as Network Director. Philippe has conducted more than 50 ratings of MFIs throughout the world. He joined AFD in 2008. Philippe graduated from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (Sciences-Po) and holds a Masters Degree in Development Studies from the London School of Economics  >> Download the Philippe Serres and Iris Lanao Flores's paper
 

Dr. Claus-Peter Zeitinger is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ProCredit Holding AG. In 1981, he co-founded Internationale Projekt Consult (IPC), a development finance consulting firm, now the driving entrepreneurial force and main strategic investor behind ProCredit. Dr. Zeitinger designed and implemented numerous downscaling and institutionbuilding projects in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Africa. Since 2006, he has been the leading figure behind the foundation of the ProCredit Academy in Germany and is currently a member of its teaching staff. Claus-Peter Zeitinger completed a Ph.D in economics at the University of Frankfurt and is the author of several studies on target group-oriented lending >> Download the Dr.Claus-Peter Zeitinger's paper