Académie Universitaire Wallonie-Bruxelles
Arvind
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Arvind Ashta holds a B.A. (Hons.) in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, a PGDM from IIM Calcutta and a Doctorate in Law from the University of Paris 2 (Panthéon-Assas). He worked 17 years in Corporate Enterprises in India and France in the fields on Management Control and Accounting before entering academics. Being Professor of finance, control and law at the Burgundy School of Business (France), he teaches optional courses in Microfinance and has also has been invited to initiate courses in Microfinance at DePaul University (Chicago, 2007) and Pforzheim (2009). His main field of research is microcredit (institutional analysis (regulation, ethics), economics of capital flows and the role of technology (notably online lending). He holds the Chair in Microfinance at the Burgundy School of Business.
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| Johan Bastiaensen |
Johan Bastiaensen is senior lecturer at the Institute of Development Policy and Management (IOB), University of Antwerp (UA), Belgium, where he is the convenor of the research group ‘Poverty and Well-Being as a Local Institutional Process’. For more than two decades, he has been the coordinator of the academic collaboration between UA and the Central American University (UCA) in Managua. He has been particularly involved in the research and development programmes of the Research and Development Institute, Nitlapán, which also lies at the origin on the microfinance institution, Fondo de Desarrollo Local. For years, he has also collaborated with the Flemish NGO Broederlijk Delen as a rural develop-ment expert. His main topics of academic interest refer to peasant economies, rural institution building (in particular finance) and development promotion. He has published articles in journals such as World Develop-ment, Third World Quarterly, Enterprise Develop-ment & Microfinance and International Develop-ment Planning review. Together with Ruerd Ruben, he also co-edited the book "Rural development in Central America: markets, livelihoods and local governance" (MacMillan).
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| Axel de Ville |
An economist by training, Axel de Ville started his professional career in 1993 in the private sector before volunteering for NGOs in Central Europe and East Africa where he discovered the concept of microfinance. He subsequently joined UNICEF as a programme manager and after four years in East Africa, returned to Europe. He joined ADA in Luxembourgin 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 (UM) within the EMP and at University of Nancy II. Since 2006, Axel de Ville chairs the Board of Directors of the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP).
Further information: www.microfinance.lu,
www.microfinance-platform.eu
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| Niels Hermes |
Niels Hermes is a professor of International Finance at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). Upon completing his doctoral thesis in 1995, Dr Hermes has gone on to research the links between financial development and economic growth, and between international capital and microfinance. He has published articles in numerous reputable journals: The Economic Journal, Journal of International Money and Finance, World development, and the Journal of Development Studies.
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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 Assistant Professor at ULB and was a FNRS Research Fellow in the field of microfinance at the Solvay Business School (ULB) until 2008. 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, Prof 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 (UM). 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, DR 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 is the executive secretary of CERISE (Comité d’Echange, de Réflexion et d’Information sur les Systèmes d’Epargne). CERISE is a platform of France-based, leading MicroFinance support organizations (CIDR, CIRAD, GRET, IRAM and IRC-SupAgro). Started in 1998, CERISE has organized various studies and seminars on the 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 (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 systems as a researcher at the CIRAD. Cécile obtained a Ph.D in Agricultural Economics from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Montpellier.
Further information: http://www.cerise-microfinance.org
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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 Schmit 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 in journals and books, including Economics of Tran-sition, 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 Develop-ment 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 développe-ment Economique et social), 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). He has over 35 years experience in microfinance, in francophone African countries, Nicaragua and 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 |
Baptiste Venet 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
| 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 graduated in econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1971. He is an associate professor in marketing at Wageningen University (The Netherlands). His research interests include the functioning and performance of markets, marketing channels and supply chains of grains and perishable products within tropical countries and on an international level. Professor van Tilburg has published in Agribusiness, Agricultural Economics, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of African Economie, and Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science. He was co-editor of several books, among those: "Agricultural Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in a Changing World" (1997), , "Agricultural Markets Beyond Liberalization (2000) and “Tropical Food Chains” (2007). |
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