Leadership and Team

The Steering Committee

Established in December 2010, the Steering Committee for Truelift is composed of a diverse group of industry leaders. A list of the current committee members can be found below.

Isabelle Barrès	Sybil Chidiac	Alex Counts
Director, Smart Campaign,Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION, United States	Senior Technical Advisor Learning and Knowledge Management of Access Africa, CARE USA	President and CEO, Grameen Foundation, United States

Frank DeGiovanni	John de Wit	Christopher Dunford***
Director of Financial Assets, Ford Foundation, United States	Managing Director, Small Enterprise Foundation, South Africa	Independent Consultant, United States

Laura Foose	Anne Hastings	Ging Ledesma
Director, Social Performance Task Force, United States	Manager, Microfinance CEO Working Group	Director, Social Performance and Financial Analysis, Oikocredit, Netherlands

Asad Mahmood	Larry Reed*	Ananya Roy
	Director, Microcredit Summit Campaign, United States	Professor and Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice, and Education Director at The Blum Center for Developing Economies, University of California, Berkeley, United States

Frances Sinha**	Javier Vaca	Carmen Velasco***
Director, EDA Rural, India	Executive Director, Red Financiera Rural, Ecuador	Co-founder, Pro Mujer, Inc., Peru

Ayesha Wagle
President, Komaza, United States

* Member of the Executive Committee

** Chair of the Technical Committee

*** Co-Chair of the Executive Committee

Advisors to the Steering Committee

Susy Cheston	Sam Daley-Harris	Emmanuelle Javoy
Senior Advisor, Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, United States	Founder and Director, Center for Citizen Empowerment and Transformation, United States	Independent

Antonique Koning	Premal Shah
Microfinance Specialist, CGAP, Belgium	President, Kiva, United States

The Microfinance Technical Review Committee

Originally established in the fall of 2011 by the Steering Committee, the Microfinance Technical Review Committee consists of raters, researchers and others experienced with assessing the performance of MFIs.

Frank Ballard	Isabelle Barrès	Laurence Bottin
Program Officer, Social Performance Management Center, Grameen Foundation, United States	Director, Smart Campaign,Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION, United States	Senior Analyst, Planet Rating, Mexico

Christopher Dunford	Bobbi Gray	Micol Guarneri
Independent Consultant, United States	Research and Evaluation Specialist, Freedom from Hunger, United States	Independent Consultant,  France

Cécile Lapenu	Edouard Sers	Anton Simanowitz
Director, Cerise, France	Quality Manager, Planet Rating, France	SPM Specialist, Oikocredit & Imp-Act Consortium, United Kingdom

Frances Sinha**	Lucia Spaggiari	Carmen Velasco
Director, EDA Rural Systems, India	Social Rating Director, MicroFinanza Rating, Thailand	Co-founder, Pro Mujer, Inc., Peru

** Chair of the Technical Committee

The Team and Secretariat

Truelift has its administrative home at the Microcredit Summit Campaign, a Project of RESULTS Educational Fund.

JD Bergeron	Bridget Dougherty	Larry Reed
Director	Program Manager	Director, Microcredit Summit Campaign