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 Leslie
Barcus is the President of the Microfinance
Management Institute (MFMI), founded in 2003 by the Consultative
Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) and the Open
Society Institute (OSI). The mission of the MFMI is to advance
management capacity in the microfinance sector. Leslie worked
for CGAP from May 2001 until November 2003 to provide support
to CGAP's capacity-building initiatives. Prior to joining CGAP,
Ms. Barcus was the Director of Lending at ACCION New York, an
associate microfinance institution of ACCION USA and ACCION International.
Leslie speaks fluent French and has worked in training, corporate
banking, and economic development consulting. She holds a master's
degree in international development from The American University
in Washington, D.C.
Kylie Charlton Vice President,Capital Markets, Unitus
Global Microfinance Accelerator. Kylie has ten years commercial
and investment banking experience in Sydney, Australia and New
York. She was formerly a Vice President in the Project and Structured
Finance Group at Citigroup. She also participated in a feasibility
study for a new financial management system for remote, indigenous
communities in the Cape York region of Australia.
Kate Cochran
Vice President, Resource Development, Unitus
Global Microfinance Accelerator. Kate was Chief Operating
Officer and Director of Leadership Development for Cultural Initiatives
Silicon Valley, an organization she helped found in 1999. Prior
to that, Kate was a consultant with Towers Perrin, helping Fortune
100 clients address human resources issues. Her other experiences
include management consulting to nonprofit organizations on fundraising,
board development and organizational effectiveness, as well handling
press duties for a United States Senator.
Foster Gonsalves is the Projects Coordinator for the Berkeley
Chapter of Asha-for-Education. Asha-for-Education was founded
in Berkeley in 1991 to make education more accessible to under-privileged
children in India. He is originally from Mumbai, India and has
worked in the field of health and nutrition among the socio-economically
challenged people of Mumbai. He also volunteered with organizations
working towards improving education and health awareness among
children living on the streets of Mumbai.
John Hatch is the founder of Foundation
for International Community Assistance (FINCA),
one of the world's leading microfinance institutions with programs
in 23 countries and nearly one million low-income families assisted
since its inception in 1984. FINCA was created to promote a methodology
pioneered by John--known as "Village Banking"-- which has been
replicated by over 400 microfinance programs in 90 countries.
John's economic development career spans 42 years, during which
time he was a former Peace Corps Volunteer, Fulbright scholar,
economist (Univ.Wisconsin, 1987), and consultant to small farmer
development projects in some 50 countries. John currently directs
FINCA's global research efforts while also supporting its fundraising
and public-speaking activities. He has also served as an adjunct
professor or lecturer of microfinance at GWU, BYU (Mariott School),
Princeton, Harvard (Kennedy School), Northwestern (Kellogg School),
and the Monterrey Institute for International Studies.
Sean Kline,
Senior Technical Advisor, Freedom
From Hunger; holds a Masters degree in Development Studies
from the London School of Economics and Political Science, with
a concentration in poverty and social policy and NGO management,
and a Bachelor of Science degree in International Development
from the University of Minnesota, with a concentration on the
informal sector. Mr. Kline brings more than 10 years of microfinance
and institutional development experience from Africa, Asia, and
the Balkans, including consultancies for international organizations
in Ghana, Uganda, India, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia, and the United
States.
Jonathan C. Lewis
serves as the board chair and CEO of MicroCredit Enterprises,
Inc. He is also the Managing Chair of Freedom from Hunger's distinguished
Ambassadors Council. Prior to retiring in 2001, he was founder
and President of the Academy for International Health Studies,
a policy and networking business organization. He was founder
of the International Summit on the Private Health Sector (annual
leadership meeting of world healthcare executives; in 2000, 675
delegates from 66 nations & 72 international agencies and
organizations formally affiliated).He has served as, among others,
CEO, California Association of Health Maintenance Organizations,
Chief Budget Advisor to the President of the California State
Senate; Chief, Office of Governmental Relations, Department of
Education, and Member, Cabinet, Superintendent of Public Instruction
(statewide constitutional officer). He has also been the founder/owner
of a public policy consulting firm, a real estate investment company,
a public interest citizens' group (tax reform) and an art gallery.
Mr. Lewis holds a Bachelor of Science with honors in applied behavior
sciences from the University of California, Davis.
 Janet
McKinley, after 25 rewarding years in the investment business,
moved on to linking capital markets to the sustainable alleviation
of global poverty. She recently retired as a director of Capital
Research and Management Company (CRMC) which oversees mutual
fund assets totaling over $600 billion. She was also Chairman
of the Income Fund of America and a portfolio manager in this
$49 billion equity-income fund, along with the global Capital
Income Fund managed by CRMC. Prior to joining Capital in 1982,
Ms. McKinley was Manager of Investor Relations and a financial
analyst for International Paper Company. She graduated summa
cum laude from Smith College (Phi Beta Kappa) and attended the
University of Krakow, Poland, as a Fulbright Scholar. She also
attended the New York University Graduate School of Business.
In
the years leading up to her “retirement” Ms. McKinley
helped micro-finance institutions access commercial financial
markets scale up their operations. Recent examples include:
one of the first and largest securitizations of non-collateralized
micro-loans in India (a $4.2 mln. local currency transaction);
a global $40 mln. securitized pool of loans to leading micro-lenders;
and facilitation of the first guarantee to leverage an $820,000
loan by the Land Bank of the Philippines to one of the country’s
leading micro-finance institutions.Ms. McKinley serves on the
boards of Oxfam America,
The Asia
Foundation, and Smith College. She also works closely with
Grameen Foundation USA.
Sebastian
Teunissen, Adjunct Professor and Executive Director,
Clausen Center for International Business and Policy. Sebastian
has worked in academe, government and industry in a variety
of countries. He managed a company in Japan, set up a joint
venture in Portugal, served on the boards of companies in Papua
New Guinea and worked in the brokerage industry in Canada. He
has served on the faculty of the business schools of Duke and
Wake Forest Universities in the USA and Guelph, in Canada. He
frequently lectures on international management issues in locations
as diverse as Hungary, Australia and Chile and he consults for
companies around the globe. At Haas he runs the International
Business Development Program, an international management
consultancy that assigns teams of MBA students to work on projects
for clients throughout the world.
 Barbara
Weber is with Grameen Foundation USA. Barbara lived in Bangladesh
for a year as a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholar where
she sought to understand poverty and successful strategies for
overcoming it. She lived in the slums of Dhaka and traveled
to rural villages where she interviewed Grameen Bank borrowers
to learn of the difference microcredit made in their lives.
Before living in
Bangladesh, Barbara was one of the organizers of the 1997 Microcredit
Summit which launched a nine year campaign to reach 100 million
of the world's poorest families with microcredit by the year
2005.
 James
A. Wilcox is
the Kruttschnitt Family Professor of Financial Institutions,
at the Haas School of Business, U. C. Berkeley. He has carried
out extensive research on many aspects of banking, monetary
policy, interest rates, bank regulation and supervision.
Jim has co-authored
"Who is Unbanked, and Why: Results from a Large, New Survey
of Low- and Moderate-Income Individuals" published by the
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. It is the first analysis of
the OCC survey data on the banking choices of low and middle
income individuals.
Jim is also a Member
of the Board of Directors of the Cal State 9 Credit Union .
Muhammad Yunus,
founder and Managing Director of Grameen
Bank , has helped millions of poor people throughout the
world by providing small loans not available from traditional
banks. His initiative began over 30 years ago in Bangladesh,
and his work continues to have far reaching effects in business,
international development, and women's empowerment.
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