Microfinance in the Balance at the 2011 Skoll World Forum
Video Description
A panel of three microfinance experts discussed Large Scale Change in Action: Microfinance in the Balance at the 2011 Skoll World Forum opening plenary.
We are living in a “backlash of over-promise,” said Alvaro Rodriguez (Compartamos Banco). Moderator, Jonathan Lewis (Microcredit Enterprises) pointed out the elephant in the room: do you have to trade off profit for social impact? The answer from Roshaneh Zafar (Kashf Foundation) was “it’s not about numbers but about lives.”
Speakers
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Co-Founder and Managing Partner, IGNIA Partners, LLC
Álvaro Rodriguez Arregui is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of IGNIA. He serves as Chairman of the Board of Compartamos SAB de CV and Compartamos Banco, Latin America's largest microfinance organisation. Alvaro has formerly served as CFO of Vitro, Chairman of the Board of ACCION International and Chairman of the Board of Unidos Somos Iguales. Forbes recently named Alvaro as one of the 30 Top Social Entrepreneurs of the world. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.
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Founder, MCE Social Capital
Author, The Unfinished Social Entrepreneur (June, 2017). Bio: http://www.jonathanclewis.com/the-author/
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Ms. Roshaneh Zafar founded the Kashf Foundation, the first specialized microfinance organization in Pakistan, in 1996.Today, one of the fastest growing MFIs in the country, Kashf Foundation was the first microfinance institute in Pakistan to achieve financial self sufficiency and demonstrated the business case for investing in womens economic empowerment.
