Inaise directors: elected during the General Assembly in June 2010

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.
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.
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 Society
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.
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
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.
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
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.

Isabel Cruz (Forolac, Mexico) contact

Specialised in rural finance, Isabel Cruz has been working during more than 20 years in the sector of sustainable financial services for the poor in rural areas. General Director of AMUCSS, Mexico, she has developed innovative solutions in the field of financial services provided in marginalised rural areas through the creation of micro banks, local self managed organisations (www.microbancos.com), micro insurances distributed through social and solidarity networks (www.microseguros.org). She is president of the Latin American and Caribbean network for rural finance regrouping 370 MFIs addressing 4.5 clients/partners (FOROLAC-FR). She is working on regulation, social performance in micro finance, savings, credit, banking exclusion and implementation of public policies.
Joël Lebossé (Filaction, Québec, Canada) contact

General manager of Filaction (Quebec), Development Fund created by Fondaction CSN, the workers' fund of Quebec.
Filaction finances enterprises having a sustainable development dynamic and rooted in their community, collective enterprises, co-operatives and not for profit organisations of the social economy sector. They also invest in equity in funds dedicated to micro credit and micro economy in Quebec.
Founding president of consulting firms ARGOS SA in France (1986) and Pythagore co-op in Quebec (1997), Joël Lebossé is also author of several publication on local development, micro finance, solidarity finance and community empowerment through social and economic initiatives.

 
Past president
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