SPEAKERS
Archil Bakuradze
MFC Chairman
Chair of Supervisory Board
JSC MFO Crystal
Georgia
Ewa Bańkowska
Deputy Director
Microfinance Centre
Poland
Yasemin Bedir
President for Eastern Europe
Mastercard
Turkey
Bouet Benoit
Head FI Debt
ResponsAbility
France
Andrea Bratu
Inclusive Finance
European Investment Fund
Luxembourg
Surjit Chana
Board Director, Harvard Fellow
Beneficial State Bank
United States
Paweł Chorąży
Managing Director
Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego
Poland
Ganhuyag Chuluun
Executive Chairman
Ard Financial Group
Mongolia
Cristina Dumitrescu
Senior Investment Manager, Inclusive Finance
European Investment Fund
Luxembourg
Sebastien Duquet
Director, Head of Development Finance
Institutions & Sovereign Business
Mirova
France
Brigitte Fellahi-Brognaux
Head of Unit for Social and Inclusive Entrepreneurship
European Commission, DG EMPL
Belgium
Andrij Fetsun
CEO & Founder
Agents for Impact
Germany
Grzegorz Galusek
Senior Advisor
Microfinance Centre
Poland
Elvina Garayeva
Debt Director EECA Region
Incofin Investment Management
Belgium
Gabriele Giuglietti
MFC Vice-Chairman
Head of Institutional and Foreign Affairs
Banca Etica
Italy
Jasmina Glišović
Head of Grant Operations and New Instruments Division
Council of Europe Development Bank
France
Martina Grigorova
CEO
SIS Credit
Bulgaria
MFC Council member
Liza Guzmán
Vice President
Customer Strategy and Women´s Economic Empowerment Lead
Accion
Colombia
Mejra Juzbasic-Bajgoric
Regional Director
Finance in Motion GmbH
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Pavol Kapsdorfer
Network and Partnership Manager
Microfinance Centre
Slovakia
Dženita Kičić
Financial Inclusion and Housing Finance Expert
Habitat for Humanity International
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Andre Kravchenko
Senior Vice President
Business Development
HES FinTech
Lithuania
Sami Lahoud
Co-Founder & CEO
EMpact
United States
MFC Council member
Gift Mahubo
Senior Director
Operations and Technology
Accion Advisory
Ireland
Kristina Maslauskaite
Technical Advisor for Microfinance
Council of Europe Development Bank
France
Andrew McCartney
Senior Financial Sector Economist
Asia Development Bank
Philippines
Silke Mueffelmann
Director, International Advisory Services
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Germany
Florian Ott
Social Banking Development
Erste Group Bank AG
Austria
Nino Pataraia
Vice President
Origination and Structuring
BlueOrchard Finance Ltd
Georgia
Katarzyna Pawlak
Executive Director
Microfinance Centre
Poland
Anastasiia Poplavska
Founder of LingoLift Language Studio
Multilingual Educator
LingoLift Language Studio
Poland
Emilia Postolache
European Affairs Officer, Council of Europe Development Bank
France
Michał Radziwiłł
Manager
Inpulse Investment Manager
Poland/Belgium
Mark Rudak
HES Fintech
Machine Learning Product Owner at Ginimachine
Lithuania
Gulnara Shamshiyeva
Bailyk Finance
Kyrgyzstan
Prateek Shrivastava
Co-Founder & COO
EMpact
United States
Andriana Sukova
Deputy Director General
European Commission
Belgium
Perlat Sulaj
CEO
Savings and Credit Association “FED invest”
Albania
MFC Council member
Srdjan Šuput
Director
Banking Agency of Republic Srpska
Bosnia and Hercegovina
Mikołaj Tajchman
AI Consultant and Trainer
Progression Sp. z o.o.
Poland
Elma Zukic
President
Association of Microfinance
Institutions in BiH – AMFI
Bosnia and Herzegovina
MFC Council member
About Microfinance Centre (MFC)
A social finance network that promotes fairness, inclusion, equality, and responsible service. Microfinance Centre unites over 120 organisations across 35 countries of Europe and Central Asia, who together deliver responsible microfinance services to almost 2,000,000 low-income clients.
Our mission is to empower people and communities through sustainable social finance. Together with our members – microfinance, financial cooperative systems, social finance banks, social investors, academic institutions, national and international support organizations and networks – we seek to make financial services work effectively for people, communities and the planet by embracing sustainability good practices and standards, sharing knowledge, advocacy and networking in the region of Europe and Central Asia.
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