The “SPTF Going Forward” working group proposed that the SPTF be structured similarly to other international standard setting bodies, such as the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).  After reviewing the structure of these entities and receiving feedback from task force members during the nominations process, the following framework is being proposed:

• 16 Member Steering Committee: The SPTF is governed by a 16 member steering committee with members from every region, and a fixed number of elected representatives from each of the major stakeholder categories: 
  • 2 donors
  • 2 investors
  • 2 MFIs: 1 NGO and 1 NBFI or bank
  • 3 MFI Associations: 1 Global, 1 Regional and 1 National
  • 2 support organizations
  • 2 audit/rating/information services
  • 2 appointed members to ensure regional diversity
  • SPTF Coordinator is an ex-officio member

DONORS

• The Ford Foundation, Frank DeGiovanni (Chair)
• CGAP, Antonique Koning

INVESTORS

• INCOFIN, David Dewez
• Oikocredit, Ging Ledesma

DIRECT MICROFINANCE PROVIDERS

Bank or NBFI

• AMK, Paul Luchtenburg

NGO MFI

• Pro Mujer Bolivia, Carmen Velasco

ASSOCIATIONS

Global

• SEEP Network, Bill Tucker

Regional

• MicroFinance Centre (MFC), Katarzyna Pawlak

• Microfinance African Institutions Network (MAIN), Fanta Wolde Michael

National

• Pakistan Microfinance Network, Aban Haq

SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS

• Grameen Foundation, Jeff Toohig

• Imp-Act Consortium, Anton Simanowitz

• CRS MISION Project, Jack Burga
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  RATING/AUDITING/INFORMATION SERVICES

  • The MIX, Micol Pistelli
  • CERISE, Cécile Lapenu
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    Frank DeGiovanni

    Frank F. DeGiovanni is Director of the Economic Development unit of the Ford Foundation’s Asset Building and Community Development Program. The unit seeks to make durable economic improvements in the lives of disadvantaged people and in their communities by supporting, through grants and Program Related Investments (PRIs), a set of focused initiatives in development finance, consumer financial services, enterprise development, workforce development, housing, and savings and individual asset development. He also currently serves as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP).
    
    Prior to assuming his current position, he was Deputy Director of Program Related Investments at the Ford Foundation, where he was responsible for creating and monitoring a diverse loan portfolio of organizations promoting community and economic development in the United States and internationally. Before joining the Ford Foundation in 1992, DeGiovanni was associate professor and senior research associate at the New School for Social Research in New York City. DeGiovanni has a Ph.D. and M.R.P. in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
    
    

     

     

    Antonique Koning

    Antonique coordinates the European Union/African, Caribbean, Pacific States Microfinance Framework Program—a capacity-building program for microfinance actors in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. As a member of CGAP's Donors & Investors Team, Antonique is based in Brussels and works closely with the European Commission and other funders to help them improve the quality of their funding for microfinance. Before joining CGAP, she worked with the World Savings Banks Institute. Koning has a master’s degree in international trade management and policy from the University of Birmingham. She speaks English, Spanish, French, and Dutch.

     

     

     

    David Dewez

    David Dewez joined Incofin in 2007 as an investment manager for South America, the Caribbean and Southern Africa. Prior to Incofin, David worked for 6 years as a Senior Director at ACCION International. In this function, he provided technical assistance to MFIs in various countries including Bolivia, Haiti, Ecuador, Peru, Uganda, El Salvador, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago. His expertise include methodological auditing, microfinance product design, market research, training ,and the development of a social performance tool (ACCION Social). David was also Coordinator of the Acción Network, a leading Microfinance network of 21 MFIs members. Prior to joining ACCION, he worked as a microfinance researcher at International Development Research Center (IDRC), a Canadian research center, and is the author of various microfinance related topics publications. David holds a MA in Economics from Laval University (Canada). He is fluent in Spanish, French and English.

    
    
    
    

    Ging Ledesma

    Ging leads the Social Performance Unit of Oikcoredit, a leading financier of microfinance in over 60 countries. Prior to moving to the Netherlands, Ging was Regional Manager of Oikocredit’s operations in the Philippines. As Regional Manager she initiated Oikocredit’s operations in Cambodia. Prior to joining Oikocredit in 1999, Ging was Project Officer at the Asia Partnership for Human Development based in Hong Kong from where she focused on the evaluation and monitoring of projects supported by the Partnership in South and East Asia.
    
    Ging’s current focus is on improving and deepening Oikocredit’s social performance management practice and in facilitating and providing support to Oikocredit partners in their efforts to do the same.

    
    
    
    

    Paul Luchtenburg

    Paul serves as the CEO for AMK which is a Cambodia based Microfinance Institution. AMK has had a strong social mission since it started MF operations in 2003. The organization specializes in delivering financial services to rural poor and currently serves more than 200,000 clients with average loan sizes of $125. AMK continues to have a passionate interest in SPM and has a dedicated research department and a dedicated Social Performance Committee as part of the board.
    
    Previous to AMK Cambodia Paul provided microfinance support for numerous organizations covering an area from Mongolia to Kosovo. His practical experience includes hands on work at nearly every level of MFI development and has worked with various methodologies and complementary strategies such as HIV/AIDS and MF. His interest in a double bottom line stemmed from his work in the formative days with the Credit with Education methodology.
    
    Overall, Paul has worked for more than 20 years in the field of community and economic development in various contexts and holds an MBA from Eastern University in the USA and has contributed to a number of different books on microfinance.

    
    
    
    

    Carmen Velasco

    Carmen Velasco, Co-founder and Director of Pro Mujer in Latin America, spent the first part of her career teaching at the Bolivian Catholic University before she teamed up with Lynne Patterson to develop training programs for women. Carmen was the co-founder of Pro Mujer in Bolivia, which has been fully sustainable since 1998, and she has also been responsible for providing technical assistance to Pro Mujer’s microfinance institutions in Argentina, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru. Under her leadership, Pro Mujer in Bolivia, has achieved a world-wide reputation for excellence. Recently, Carmen assumed her new role as the Co-Director of Pro Mujer International. Based in Pro Mujer’s new regional office in Bolivia, she is responsible for supporting operations, for new product development, and for implementation of all network systems in each of the 5 countries where Pro Mujer is established. Carmen has a Bachelor’s degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Chile.
    
    
    
    

    Bill Tucker

    Bill Tucker is the Executive Director of The SEEP Network. He has 30+ years of microfinance experience with ACCION, WOCCU and NCBA, all SEEP members. He has worked in over 40 developing countries, having lived 26 years in Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Egypt. Bill was instrumental in the creation of both MiBanco in Peru and BancoSol in Bolivia. In 1977, the Colombian micro-lending program in which Bill worked provided 52 loans in its first year of operation. In 1984, the profitable microfinance program Bill directed in Egypt disbursed 1,500 micro-loans per day, generating an annual lending volume of a quarter of a billion US dollars.
    
    Bill holds an MBA from George Washington University and a BS in International Business from Syracuse University. He is an instructor at the “Boulder” Microfinance Training held in Italy and Latin America, and he has been a presenter at multiple international events.
    
    
    
    

    Katarzyna Pawlak

    Katarzyna Pawlak, deputy director of the Microfinance Centre, a regional network for Europe and Asia. She is an MBA with ten years of practical experience in microfinance related to organizational management, program design and implementation. Since 2001 Katarzyna has been actively engaged in advancing Social Performance Management in ECA and globally through implementation of global and regional programs, engagement in a wide range of promotional activities, leadership and participation in various Social Performance related initiatives. She’s been a member of the Task Force since its inception, sits on the Imp-Act Consortium Management Committee and is actively involved in the SEEP Working Group on Social Performance. She authored or co-authored various publications, tools and training courses related to Social Performance Management including the Imp-Act/MFC Social Performance Management Guidelines and From Mission to Action Management Series promoting Strategic Management for Double-bottom Line and Quality Audit Tools.

    
    
    
    

    Fanta Wolde Michel

    
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    Aban Haq

    Aban is a Research Analyst at the Pakistan Microfinance Network (PMN) where she has worked for three years. Prior to working with PMN, she worked with the central bank of the country as well as the Ministry of Finance. Aban is leading PMN’s work on consumer protection and social performance along with managing the Network’s research function.

    
    
    

     

    Jeff Toohig

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    Anton Simanowitz

    Anton Simanowitz is based at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, and is a member of the Vulnerability and Poverty reduction team. His work focuses on understanding and supporting practice to make microfinance more effective in reducing poverty.
    
    His work includes working on social performance at an international level through the Imp-Act Consortium and contracts with organisations such as the IFC, Micro-insurance network, and the MiX. Anton led the formation of the Imp-Act Consortium and was Director until March 2010. Imp-Act supports and promotes the management of social performance in microfinance, providing practical lessons for practice and public policy. The Consortium’s Practice Guide, Putting the ‘Social’ into performance management’ has been downloaded more than 35,000 times since its launch in December 2008, and is currently being translated into Spanish, French, Russian and Arabic.
    
    Anton also works directly with microfinance organisations and support organisations, including a long term commitment to the Small Enterprise Foundation, the largest developmental microfinance organization in South Africa. His work with SEF focuses on improving efficiency and effectiveness through strengthening performance management and systems to balance social and financial performance.

     

     

    Jack Burga

    
    
    Jack Burga is the Director of the MISION II Project for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and is the Director of the MISION Program in Latin America. The program specializes in helping to develop the social performance management of MFIs in Latin America. He is also a university lecturer and advisor in micro, small, and rural business, small business management, and social performance management at Peruvian Catholic University, San Marcos First National University, and La Molina Agricultural University.
    
    Jack has spoken at national and international events on topics related to small and micro business, and at the 7th, 8th, and 9th, InterAmerican Forum on Micro-business, organized by the IDB.He holds degrees in Chemical Engineering and Business Administration from the University of Lima, Peru.
    
    

     

    Micol Pistelli

    Micol Pistelli is the manager of the Social Performance Standards Program at MIX. Micol started to work in international development for the Department of Development Cooperation at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She has worked as microfinance consultant at the Italian Embassy in Egypt, at Fundacion Paraguaya in Paraguay and at the Microfinance Management Institute (MFMI) in Washington DC.
    
    She earned her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Bologna in Italy and her M.A. in International Economics and International Development from SAIS-Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC.

     

     

     

    Cécile Lapenu

    Cécile Lapenu, a citizen of France, is the executive director of CERISE, a microfinance knowledge exchange network (http://www.cerise-microfinance.org). CERISE has developed tools and organized studies and seminars mainly on social performance and impact, rural and agricultural finance and governance. Cécile Lapenu is member of the steering committee of the Social Performance Task Force and deputy chair-woman of the Board of the European microfinance platform (e-MFP). Before joining CERISE in January 2001, Cécile Lapenu was a post-doctoral fellow at IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, USA). From 1993 to 1997, she worked as a researcher at the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD).