Alexia Latortue is one of the Bank's senior spokespeople on microfinance. She is the Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a multi-donor organization created to help build a large scale permanent microfinance industry providing flexible, high-quality financial services on a sustainable basis to the poor. CGAP provides technical assistance and strategic advice, development and dissemination of technical tools and services, delivery of training, and in-depth research products.
Alexia Latortue joined CGAP in 2002 after several years as a development specialist with Development Alternatives, Inc., where her responsibilities included working in Haiti on microfinance projects. Alexia moved to Washington, D.C., recently after spending four years running CGAP’s Paris office. From Europe, she led CGAP’s aid effectiveness work, including the development of the SmartAid for Microfinance Index, a tool that helps microfinance funders assess and improve their funding for microfinance services. She also headed the CGAP team that provides strategic and technical advice on microfinance to donors and investors and produces comprehensive data on cross-border funding for microfinance.
In 2009 Alexia became a special advisor to CGAP’s CEO, with responsibility for special projects, including CGAP’s work in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is a board member of the Microinsurance Network and has written on microinsurance, aid effectiveness, and other funding-related issues. She speaks regularly on microfinance issues.
Alexia, who is of Haitian descent, grew up in West Africa and Austria, and she has worked in developing countries all around the world. She has a master’s degree in development economics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She speaks English, French, Creole, and German, and some Spanish.
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