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Guest Contributors & Interviewees

The Social Performance Indicators Blog welcomes insights on social performance measurement and management from practitioners and researchers across the globe. Former guest contributors and interviewees are listed below.

If you are interested in contributing a guest post or would like to be contacted for an interview, please write us at spblog@themix.org

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Guest Contributors

Florent Bedecarrats | CERISE
Enhancing Social Performance Transparency to Consolidate Microfinance’s Impact: A Work in Progress in Africa

Jack Burga | Director, Project MISION II, Catholic Relief Services
Project MISION II: Helping Latin American and African MFIs Build Up Their Social Performance Management Systems

Richard Carothers | President, Partners in Technology Exchange Ltd.
Social Responsibility to the Community: Improving Workplace Safety in Egypt

Craig Churchill | Head of the Microinsurance Innovation Facility, International Labour Organization
Innovating Microinsurance

Jessica Elisberg | Marketing Communications Associate, Microfinance Information eXchange (MIX)
First We Measure…and Then What? Poverty Assessment Application

Adrian Gonzalez | Lead Researcher, Microfinance Information eXchange (MIX)
New Research Results on Trade-offs and Synergies between Social and Financial Performance

Janiece Greene | Director, Women’s Market, Women's World Banking
From Access to Empowerment: Gender Performance in Microfinance

Cécile Koller | Head of Research, responsAbility Social Investments AG
Hand in Hand: Financial and Social Performance

Sarah Leshner | Senior Investment Analyst, BlueOrchard
BlueOrchard’s Initiatives in Social Performance

Melissa Lumpkin | Principal Manager, Innovation and Technology, ACCION International
Worse than a War Zone: Sogesol Assesses the Damage in Haiti

Leah Nedderman | Microfinance Consultant
MFIs Respond to Disaster: Fonkoze in Haiti
Advocating for Financial Performance Indicators: What Can We Learn from Efforts in Social Performance? 

Richard Rinehart | Certified Industrial Hygienist
Defining Social Responsibility to the Community: Occupational Safety and Health

Tomás Rodríguez Alas | Coordinator, Program MISION, Red Centroamericana de Microfinanzas (REDCAMIF)
Social Performance Management: A Response to Three Worries in Microfinance

Rebecca Ruf | Associate, Capital Markets Group, Women's World Banking
From Access to Empowerment: Gender Performance in Microfinance

Ben Simmes | Director, Social Performance and Financial Analysis, Oikocredit – Netherlands
Oikocredit's New Department: Social Performance and Financial Analysis

Veronika Thiel | Microfinance Research Consultant
New Resources for Social Performance Management from the Imp-Act Consortium

Drew Tulchin | Managing Partner, Social Enterprise Associates
Advocating for Financial Performance Indicators: What Can We Learn from Efforts in Social Performance?

Preeti Wali | Communications Associate, Grameen Foundation
PPI Shows Fonkoze that Clients Are Moving Out of Poverty

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Interviewees

Saodat Akhmedova | Deputy Director, Socio-Economic Development Centre (SABR)
A Holistic Approach to Gender Equality: Financial and Nonfinancial Services at SABR, Uzbekistan

Martin Burt
| Executive Director, Fundación Paraguaya
Innovative Approaches to the Socio-Economic Development of Communities: Fundación Paraguaya

Fabiola Céspedes Quiroga | Research Coordinator, CRECER
Not Just Credit: Savings and Insurance Products through CRECER, Bolivia

Mirna Elizabeth Chaclán | Marketing and Social Performance, REFICOM-CDRO
Promoting Environmentally Sustainable Enterprises among Indigenous Populations: REFICOM-CDRO

Michael A. Edberg | Director of Investments, MicroVest Capital Management
MicroVest: Focusing on Financial Inclusion

Eliza M. Erikson | Portfolio Manager, Calvert Foundation
Calvert Foundation: A Social Perspective for “Good Business”

Diego Fernandez Concha | Director, Microfinanzas PRISMA Peru
Measuring Poverty in Peru: the Experience of PRISMA with the PPI™

Alexandra Fiorillo | Vice President, MFTransparency 
The Quest for Transparent Pricing: MFTransparency Releases World’s First True-Cost Pricing Data

Tofig Gasimov | Director of International Relations, Parabank
Downscaling Commercial Banks Can Offer High Quality Products to Microfinance Clients

Godknows Kporha | Social Mission Manager, Initiative Development Ghana
Non-Financial Services: The Experience of Initiative Development Ghana

Benita Sarah Mathew | ESAF
An Integral Approach to Women’s Empowerment: ESAF in India

Madina Rakhimova | Executive Director, Socio-Economic Development Centre (SABR)
A Holistic Approach to Gender Equality: Financial and Nonfinancial Services at SABR, Uzbekistan

Nina Robertson | Manager, Marketing and Non-Financial Services, Microfund For Women
Prioritizing Women in Middle Eastern Microfinance: Jordan’s Microfund for Women

Anton Simanowitz | Chief Development Officer, Small Enterprise Foundation (SEF) and Director, Imp-Act Consortium, Institute of Development Studies
Integrating Social Performance in Operations: the Case of the Small Enterprise Foundation (SEF) in South Africa

Sandhya Suresh | ESAF
An Integral Approach to Women’s Empowerment: ESAF in India

Preeti Telang | General Manager, Programmes and Operations, Swadhaar FinAccess
Innovation Meets Financial Education: Swadhaar in India

Jeff Toohig | Deputy Director, PPI Deployment, Grameen Foundation
Measuring Poverty in Peru: the Experience of PRISMA with the PPI™

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