CONTRIBUTORS
Caroline Boudergue
Director, Bond’innov
Caroline Boudergue is managing director of the international Women in Africa (WIA) platform. She graduated from ESCP Europe and began her career as a financial analyst at Stern Stewart in London, before joining CIC’s corporate banking sector in the USA. Caroline Boudergue joined the Women’s Forum in 2007 and has since been working on the potential of women in business and the economy.
Ninon Duval has been director of Bond’innov since 2011. This association is hosted in the IRD Île-de-France centre and fosters innovation projects in France and throughout Europe. Ninon previously worked as an independent innovation management consultant between 2004 and 2011 and she launched and ran the Paris Mentor programme until the end of 2011. She has also helped set up and develop a number of start-ups, including Vegetal Fabric, which was nominated for the Grand Prix de l’innovation de Paris in 2011.
Matthew Gamser
Senior consultant, African Development Bank (AfDB)
Dr. Matthew Gamser is CEO of the SME Finance Forum. He has over 40 years’ experience in private enterprise and financial sector development. He has worked for IFC for 14 years in various positions from Washington, DC, and Hong Kong, where he has focused on SME finance and on financial sector development. Prior to that, he spent 25 years in management consulting and in senior leadership in an international NGO. He holds A.B. and A.M. degrees from Harvard University, and M.Sc. and D.Phil degrees from Sussex University (UK).
Jonathan Lange was the AfDB's Africa SME Programme coordinator, until May 2019. This program aims to increase access to finance for micro, small, and medium-sized businesses across Africa. Before joining the AfDB, Jonathan spent several years in Tunisia, where he worked as director of an American development NGO and as a professor of accounting and finance. Jonathan holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Certified Public Accountant.
CEO, SME Finance Forum (IFC)
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Ninon Duval
Managing director, Women in Africa
Jonathan Lange
