Microfinance Event: Panel in New York

Panel in New York

On May 18th, there will be an important panel held in New York City. The panel will discussing the effects of the global financial crisis on the microfinance firms around the world. The panel is being hosted by the Women Advancing Microfinance (WAM-NY). WAM is a young organization that is focused on helping women in microfinance. They look to educate women in leadership and business so that microfinance may help the women more. They have been able to bring in some top names from the microfinance industry for the panel. Barbara Magnoni is the President of EA Consultants. EA Consultants works with access to finance and banking services including micro versions of these services. She has been an advocate for various microfinance projects and has years of experience. They also have the CFO of Compartamos, Fernando Alvarez Toca. I have spoken extensively of Compartamos and it will be interesting to hear his opinions on the effects of the global economy on microfinance. Moreover, they have Pilar Ramirez on the experienced panel. She is now the general manager of LOCFUND, the Local Currency Microfinance Fund for Latin America and The Caribbean. She has over 20 years of microfinance experience and brings much insight on this issue. This is great local event to go to. They will be addressing many issues that have been discussed thoroughly in the past few years but will be going into much more detail behind what is happening in the microfinance industry during these tough financial times. It will be interesting to find out the opinions of the different panelists because they have come from different areas of microfinance. I hope many of will check it out.