April 12 – Video conference with Chuck Waterfield, CEO & President of MicroFinance Transparency
Chuck Waterfield has 25 years experience in microfinance, with a mixture of practical field experience (six years starting MFIs in both Haiti and Bolivia) and experience leading network strategy development (serving as microenterprise director for both MEDA and for CARE International). He developed Microfin, the most popular financial planning software in the microfinance industry and teaches business planning courses around the world, with more than 3,000 microfinance professionals having been trained in his courses. Currently on faculty of Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, he founded Microfinance Transparency in 2008 and works as the CEO and President.