Global Advisory Committee

 

Ranya Abdel-Baki, Executive Director, Sanabel - The Microfinance Network of Arab Countries, Egypt

Sir Fazle Abed, Founder & Chairperson, BRAC, Bangladesh

Nasser Al-Kahtani, Executive Director, AGFUND, Saudi Arabia

Aniceta Alip, Research Director, CARD MRI, The Philippines

Robert Annibale, Global Director of Microfinance, Citi, England

Essma Ben Hamida, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Enda Inter-Arabe, Tunisia

Ela Bhatt, Founder, SEWA, India

Anne-Marie Chidzero, Chair, African Microfinance Investment Company, Mauritius

Shafiqual Haque Choudhury, Founder & President, ASA, Bangladesh

Alex Counts, President & CEO, Grameen Foundation, USA

Isabel Cruz Hernandez, General Director, AMUCSS, Mexico

Vijayalakshmi Das, Managing Director, Ananya Finance for Inclusive Growth Pvt. Ltd., India

Jean-Philippe de Schrevel, Co-founder of BlueOrchardCEO of BlueOrchard Investments (Private Equity) Sàrl, Switzerland

Henri Dommel, Director, FIPA Unit, UNCDF/UNDP, USA

Chris Dunford, President, Freedom from Hunger, USA

Tilman Ehrbeck, CEO, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), USA

Connie Evans, President & CEO, Association for Enterprise Opportunity, USA

Laura Foose, Director, Social Performance Task Force, USA

Grzegorz Galusek, Executive Director, Microfinance Centre (MFC), Poland

Tor Gull, Managing Director, Oikocredit, The Netherlands

Anne Hastings, CEO, Fonkoze Financial Services, Haiti

John Hatch, Founder, FINCA International, USA

K.G. Karmakar, Managing Director, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), India

Djarot Kusumayakti, Managing Director, Bank Rakyat Indonesia, Indonesia

Juan José Lagos, President, REDCAMIF, Honduras

Marten Leijon, Executive Director, Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX) , USA

Francisco Moza Zapatero, Director, AECID, Spain

José Moisés Martín Carretero, Department Head for Multilateral Cooperation, AECID, Spain

Klaas Molenaar, President, European Microfinance Network (EMN), The Netherlands

Ingrid Munro, Founder & Managing Trustee, Jamii Bora, Kenya

Rev. Tambwe wa Tambwe Musangelu, Executive Director, Diku Dilenga RD du Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo

Shri N.K. Maini, Deputy Managing Director, Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), India

Soukeyna Ndiaye Ba, Executive Director, INAFI International, Senegal

Maria Nowak, President, L'Association pour le droit à l'initiative économique (ADIE), France

Chief Bisi Ogunleye, National Coordinator & Executive Director, Country Women's Association of Nigeria (COWAN), Nigeria

Emilio Ontiveros, President, Afi, Spain

Elisabeth Rhyne, Managing Director, Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International, USA

Jennifer Riria, CEO, Kenya Women's Finance Trust, Kenya

Daouda Sawadogo, Executive Director, Fédération des Caisses Populaires du Burkina, Burkina Faso

Davy Serge Azakpame, Executive Director, Réseau Africain de Microfinance (AFMIN), Benin

Frances Sinha, Director, Micro-Credit Ratings International Ltd. (M-CRIL), India

Anadete Torres, Superintendent, Banco do Nordeste do Brasil, Brazil

Javier Vaca, Executive Director, Red Financiera Rural, Ecuador

Carmen Velasco, Co-Founder & Director, Pro Mujer Inc., Bolivia

Arnaud Ventura, Co-founder, PlaNet Finance Group, Founder & CEO, MicroCred, France

Reynold Walter, President, Sociedad de Inversiones para la Microempresa de Centroamérica y el Caribe S.A. (SICSA), Guatemala

Chuck Waterfield, CEO & President, Microfinance Transparency, USA

Du Xiaoshan, Professor and Chair of the Board of Directors of FPC MF Project, Rural Development Institute(RDI), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China

Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh

Roshaneh Zafar, Managing Director, Kashf Foundation, Pakistan