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Marcel Hipszman (IDES, France) - President
since June 2008 - contact
Representative of the president of Esfin-Ides group, president of Sofinei (Financing
society for companies integrating excluded people in the job market), Marcel Hipszman
is engaged in the financing of social economy companies for almost 20 years. |
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Giovanni Acquati (Soliles, Italy) contact
Founder of the finance cooperative MAG2 in Milan, member of the first board
of the cooperative "towards the creation of Banca Etica" in Italy,
participated in several ethical associations and European projects, board
member of RIPESS |
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Lars Pehrson (Merkur, Denmark) contact
Lars
Pehrson is vice president of INAISE. Co-founder and CEO of Merkur
Cooperative Bank, Denmark. Has been active in social finance since 1982.
Long engagement in the board of INAISE and other international cooperation
and networking. |
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Malcolm Hayday (Charity Bank, United Kingdom) contact
Malcolm, is the Chief Executive of The Charity Bank Limited, the UK’s first
general charity to be authorised as a bank.
He was previously the Director of Community Finance at CAF (Charities Aid
Foundation) and Director of CAF’s social investment loan fund, Investors in
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Allan Bussard (Integra, Slovakia) contact
Allan
Bussard, a native of Canada, has worked in the area of small business and
organizational development in Europe since 1975.
Since 1990, he has lived in Bratislava, Slovakia. He is a founder of FBE
Ltd, a leading Slovak and Czech consulting firm. As well, in 1995, he
co-founded Integra, which is an economic development agency with operations
in Slovakia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Kenya and Sudan.
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Christian Schmitz (Sidi, France) contact
Christian Schmitz, of Belgian origin, is trained as an engineer and
worked during 15 years in the Maghreb in the hydraulic and civil engineering
sectors before being involved in international solidarity organisations in
France. President of the board of directors, he manages SIDI (International
solidarity for development and investment) for 10 years. SIDI is a limited
company acting as social and solidarity based investor in developing
countries |
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Andreas Neukirch (GLS Gemeinschaftsbank, Germany) contact
Since
2002 Andreas Neukirch is member of the board of the GLS Bank with
responsibilities in the following domains: personnel development, bank-wide
control, IT-Orga and audit. He is also responsible for affiliated companies
within the GLS group and therefore member of the executive board of the
Beteiligungs AG and Energie AG.
He is engaged in the international collaboration of ethic-ecological
oriented banks as a member of INAISE board and member of the supervisory
board of the ISB (Institute for Social Banking).
Andreas Neukirch is honorary member of the board of a big German
charity-alliance (Caritas) and a home care establishment. |
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Peter Quarmby (Community Sector Banking,
Australia) contact
Peter is Executive Director of Community Sector Banking and CEO of
Community Sector Innovations, the Banks business development and
innovation unit. Peter has worked in the Community Sector for over 25
years. He has been CEO of two successful community-based employment
services providers (Enterprise and Training Company of Coffs Harbour
and Access Community Group in Wollongong). Peter developed the concept
of Community Sector Banking and was instrumental in the foundation of
the bank in 2002. Peter also developed and was a founding director of
and Australia’s first Regional Superannuation Fund |
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Fanta Wolde Michael (MAIN, Ethiopia)
contact Since 2000, Fanta
Wolde Michael has been the Executive Director of the Microfinance
African Institutions Network (MAIN), established for strengthening the
operational capacities of African microfinance institutions.
Over the last 25 years he has worked in rural development and
microfinance in Africa. Mr. Fanta studied management, public
administration, political science and development strategies. |
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Isabel Cruz (Forolac, Mexico)
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Joël Lebossé (Filaction, Québec, Canada)
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