Bertrand has several years of experience as Fund administrator in Luxembourg where he learned the existence of Microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs). Both interests in Finance and development matters have led Bertrand to undertake a PhD at the University of Mons (UMONS) in the field of Microfinance.

His research aims at studying the financial impact of MIVs on Microfinance institutions (MFIs) as a credible and financially sustainable funding mean and if MIVs can contribute to the expansion and consolidation of MFIs more specifically in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Email: Bertrand.MOULIN@student.umons.ac.be

Ephrem Niyongabo is PhD candidate in Economics and Management at the Faculté Warocqué (UMONS). He holds a degree in advanced development studies (ULG) and is graduated in Economics (University of Bejaia, Algeria). His doctoral research is focusing on public policy and microfinance in rural and agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa. His professional experience started in the field of election planning and management as a United Nations Official in Burundi in 2005. His experience with microfinance in the field is set in Burundi where he did research on sustainability of 3 MFIs (FENACOBU, CECM, and COSPEC) and got in touch with the microfinance actors at the macro and meso levels.

Email: Ephrem.Niyongabo@umons.ac.be
Tel.: +32(0)65.37.32.79
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Anaïs Perilleux is currently a FNRS Research Fellow at the Faculté Warocqué (UMONS). She graduated in economics (ULB), and from the European Microfinance Programme (EMP). As partial fulfilment for the completion of her academic studies Ms Perilleux worked with a cooperative of cotton producers in South Mali and with a microfinance institution in Calcutta. Other professional engagements included the study of a network of cooperatives in Senegal on behalf of the Belgian NGO, SOS Faim, and the Senegalese farmers movement “FONGS”) and a mission in Kinshasa.

Email: anais.perilleux@umons.ac.be
Tel. : +32(0)65.37.32.77
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Koen Rossel-Cambier is an economist with Masters degrees in respectively Applied Economics, International Trade and International Relations. Mr. Rossel- Cambier began his professional career working as an academic assistant for an MBA programme with the EHSAL School of Economics in Brussels. Consequently he worked for the Cabinet of the Belgian Development Cooperation in Belgium. Since he left Belgium in 1998 to work on long term assignments overseas in countries such as Senegal, Italy, Morocco and Barbados he has been working with international organisations including the ILO, the World Bank and UNICEF, and is currently employed by the European Commission. Mr. Rossel-Cambier Cambier has conducted capacity building and technical support missions in more than 30 countries, especially in Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean. He has authored various publications and text books especially in the fields of social protection and micro-insurance and is currently completing his doctoral thesis on combined microfinance systems.

Email: koenrc@yahoo.com
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Jessica Schicks holds a Masters level degree in Economics and Management (University of Witten/Herdecke) and earned an MPhil in Development Studies from Cambridge, UK. Her work experience covers a broad range of topics, including microfinance work with KfW, the United Nations Capital Development Fund, and an Opportunity International MFI in Ghana. Since 2007, Jessica has worked as an international banking consultant with McKinsey & Company, focusing on commercial banking for retail and corporate customers as well as inclusive finance. Jessica is currently on an educational leave from McKinsey to do her PhD. Continuing in line with her previous research on the double bottom line character of the inclusive finance industry, her research will focus on customer protection in microfinance.

Email: Jessica.Schicks@ulb.ac.be

Ritha Sukadi is currently a research and training assistant at the Solvay Business School (ULB), as well as a researcher with the Centre Emile Bernheim. She holds a Master in business management from UMH. She is also a graduate of the European Microfinance Programme (EMP) and is currently a PhD student in management sciences at Solvay Business School (ULB). Ms. Sukadi has had extensive experience with microfinance in the field; in Equator, Burkina Faso, Nepal and Democratic Republic of Congo.  She has worked for two microfinance NGOs in Luxembourg and Brussels.

Email: rsukadim@ulb.ac.be
Tel.: +32(0)2.650.48.72
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Ludovic Urgeghe is currently a research and teaching assistant at the Warocqué Faculty of Economics and Business (UMONS) and is a PhD candidate and research fellow at the CERMi. He holds a master degree in business management and is also a graduate of the European Microfinance Programme. His PhD research, situated in the context of microfinance commercialization, aims at exploring the influence of emerging specialized investment vehicles on the microfinance sector, and especially on the governance of microfinance institutions.

Email: ludovic.urgeghe@umons.ac.be
Tel.: +32(0)65.37.32.77
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Annabel Vanroose is currently a research and teaching assistant at the Vrije Universiteit te Brussel (VUB) for the courses on monetary economics and on the history of economic thought. She holds a degree in advanced business management (ULB) and is also a graduate of the European Microfinance Programme (EMP).  She is pursuing her doctoral studies in microfinance, under joint supervision by ULB and VUB, focusing on the unequal development of microfinance in developing countries. Ms. Vanroose has field experience from both Latin America and India.

Email: avroose@vub.ac.be 
Tel.: +32(0)2.629.21.22
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Cyril Fouillet holds a PhD in Economics and Management from the Université libre de Bruxelles and is currently undertaking a post-doctorate at the University of Oxford (School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies). Wiener-Anspach Fellow, Cyril Fouillet’s research interests include the spatial dimensions of financial inclusion in South Asia, Latin America and North Africa.

He has an interest in economic geography of monetary and financial practices and tracks the ideas and ideologies in development policies. As a research fellow at the French Institute of Pondicherry (program “Labour, Finance and Social Dynamics”), he spent three years in India conducting his fieldwork on economical, spatial and political dimensions of microfinance. He is also a research associate at the Centre for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi), Université Libre de Bruxelles and research member of the Rural Microfinance and Employment project (French National Research Agency). He previously worked for the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (Rural Finance Group), and the Foundation for World Agriculture and Rural Life (FARM).