Académie Universitaire Wallonie-Bruxelles
| Axel de Ville |
An economist by training, Axel de Ville started his professional career in 1993 in the private sector before volunteering for a NGO in Central Europe and then in East Africa where he discovered the concept of microfinance. He subsequently joined UNICEF as a programme manager and after a total of four years in East Africa, returned to Europe. He joined ADA in Luxembourg in 2000 to manage its microfinance investment programme “Luxmint” and took on his current role as ADA’s Executive Director in 2002. He has since specialised in various aspects of microfinance including performance analysis, product innovation and knowledge management. He further teaches microfinance at University of Mons-Hainaut within the European Microfinance Programme and at University of Nancy II.
Since 2006, Axel de Ville chairs the Board of Directors of the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP). The e-MFP is a non-profit organisation that groups more than 50 European entities active in microfinance in developing countries.
For further information: www.microfinance.lu or www.microfinance-platform.eu
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| Marek Hudon |
Marek Hudon holds a Ph.D. in Economics and Management Sciences and a Master in Philosophy. He is currently a FNRS Research Fellow at the Solvay Business School (ULB) in the field of microfinance. His professional experience includes engagements with the European Commission (DG Development) and the World Bank, and he was the director of the Belgian office for PlaNet Finance, an internationally renowned microfinance NGO. He has conducted research in India, Morocco and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 2006, Dr Hudon was a visiting fellow at Harvard University where he worked on ethical issues in microfinance under the supervision of Professor Amartya Sen. Current research interests also include public policy issues in microfinance. |
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Marc Labie |
Marc Labie is an associate professor in the Department of Management of the Faculté Warocqué at the Université de Mons-Hainaut (UMH). Dr. Labie teaches organizational studies, specialising in microfinance institutions. He holds a Bachelor degree in Economics and Social Science, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration. Dr. Labie has also studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at the Universidad de Salamanca. He is an alumnus of the FIPED program at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US. His field experience includes case studies in Colombia, Bolivia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Mexico and Peru. Dr. Labie’s current research is focused on corporate governance issues in microfinance. |
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| Cécile Lapenu |
Cécile Lapenu, a citizen of France, is the executive secretary of CERISE (Comité d’Echange, de Réflexion et d’Information sur les Systèmes d’Epargne - crédit – http://www.cerise-microfinance.org). CERISE is a platform of France-based, leading MicroFinance support organizations (CIDR, CIRAD, GRET, IRAM and IRC-SupAgro). CERISE was started in 1998, and since then it has organized various studies and seminars on the following themes : financing of agriculture, governance, social performances and impact, MFIs in remote rural areas, etc. Before joining CERISE in January 2001, Cécile Lapenu was a post-doctoral fellow at IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, USA) working on the Rural Finance Team in the Food Consumption and Nutrition Division. From 1993 to 1997, she worked on the development of rural financial system as a researcher at the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement. She received a Ph.D in agricultural economics from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Montpellier. |
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| Ariane Szafarz |
Ariane Szafarz, PhD in Mathematics, is a finance professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), specialising in international financial markets, interest rates and speculation. She co-directs the doctoral programme in management sciences organised jointly by the Solvay Business School (ULB), the Faculté Warocqué (UMH) and HEC Management School (ULg). She is also the director of the Centre Emile Bernheim and the president of the Marie-Christine Adam Fund. |
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| Mathias Schmit |
Mathias is the founder of SAGORA Lease & Risk Management, a network of senior risk professionals merging extensive leasing and banking experience with strong analytical skills and innovation. Mathias holds a Phd in finance and has published numerous scientific papers on the impact of Basel II on the financial industry. He is also a professor of Finance at the Solvay Business School, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) |
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| Laurent Weill |
Laurent Weill is Associate Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg in Université Robert Schuman (Strasbourg). He has been visiting researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and he is external economist for the Czech National Bank since 2005. His research focuses on various aspects of empirical banking. It also includes corporate finance, theoretical banking, and macroeconomics. He has published 30 papers on these topics in journals and books, including Economics of Transition, European Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Applied Financial Economics, European Journal of Operational Research. |
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Université Paris Dauphine
| Marc Raffinot |
Marc Raffinot is an associate professor at Paris-Dauphine University (France), specialising in Development Economics, Development Finance, Development Policies, and Development Macroeconomics. He also teaches at Sciences Po Paris (France) and at the Lebanese University (Beirut). Professor Raffinot works as an expert for the European Commission (Applied Macroeconomics for developing countries) and as a consultant in development economics. He was formerly a Research Director at SEDES (Société d’étude du développement Economique et social). He also was formerly director of Vocational Training at the ESGE (Ecole Supérieure de Gestion des Entreprises, Dakar, Sénégal, now CESAG), and professor at ITPEA (Institut technologique de Planification et d’Economie Appliquée, Algiers, Algeria). Professor Raffinot has over 35 years of experience in microfinance, in Francophone African countries, Latin America (Nicaragua) and Asia (Cambodia). His fields of expertise include: macroeconomics, debt sustainability, public and development finance. |
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| Sonia Stransky |
Sonia Stransky is currently a PhD student in sociology at the Paris-Dauphine University where she is also in charge of several courses (masters I and II in Sustainable Development and Responsibility of Organizations). Her main research field focalizes on microfinance and health, sustainable development, social change, globalization, financial/social integration and individual/collective responsibility. Sonia has field experience in Brazil, Benin and Paris where she studied the impact of microfinance on health. |
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Sylvaine Trinh |
Sylvaine Trinh is a professor of sociology at Paris-Dauphine University (France) and director of the masters programme in Sustainable Development and Responsibility of Organisations. Her research focuses on the links between corporate activities, environment and sustainable development. Ms. Trinh is an expert on Asia-Pacific societies. |
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| Baptiste Venet |
He has been senior lecturer in Economics in University Paris Dauphine for 10 years. He has some lectures in development finance, macroeconomics, microeconomics and econometrics. Baptiste also has a lecture of microfinance at IEP Paris (“Sciences Po” Paris). He works on informal finance, microcredit and microfinance and more generally on financial system in developing countries. Recently, He focuses on the specific borrowers’ incentives to repay at time in individual microcredit and more precisely on the role of guarantors in individual microloans. |
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Wageningen Universiteit
| Erwin Bulte |
Erwin Bulte is a professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at the University of Tilburg (The Netherlands), as well as a professor at the University of Wageningen (The Netherlands), where he is in charge of the department of Development Economics. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Cambridge University (UK) and an advisor on agrarian and development economics for the World Food Organization. |
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Robert Lensink |
Robert Lensink is a professor in Finance and Financial Markets at Groningen University (The Netherlands). His main field of research includes microfinance, finance and development and international finance. He has published several books and more than 60 articles in international journals such as The Economic Journal, World Development, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, and the Journal of Banking and Finance. |
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Aad van Tilburg |
Aad van Tilburg est licencié en économétrie de la Erasmus University Rotterdam (1971). Il est professeur associé en marketing à la Wageningen University. Ses centres d'intérêt en recherhce sont le fonctionnement et les performances des acteurs, marchés, canaux de marketing et chaînes d'approvisionnement en ce qui concerne le grain et les produits périssables aux niveaux des pays tropicaux ainsi qu'au niveau des marchés internationaux. Il a publié dans "Agribusiness", "Agricultural Economics", "European Review of Agricultural Economics", "Journal of Development Economics", "Journal of Regional Science", "Journal of African Economies and Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science". Il a été co-éditeur du "Agricultural Marketing and Consumer Behavior in a Changing World" (1997, Kluwer Academic Publishers), "Agricultural Marketing in Tropical Africa" (1999, Ashgate Publishing), "Agricultural Markets beyond Liberalization" (2000, Kluwer Academic Publishers), "Marketing tussen Wetenschap en Maatschappij" (2006, Wageningen Academic Publishers) et dans "Tropical Food Chains" (2007, Wageningen Academic Publishers).
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