The Friends of Grameen

HONORARY COMMITTEE

  • Mary Robinson, Chairperson of the Friends of Grameen Honorary Committee, former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • Jacques Chirac, former President of the French Republic, and Head of the “Fondation Chirac: agir au service de la paix”
  • Óscar Arias, former President of Costa Rica, Peace Nobel Prize (1987)
  • William Drayton, founder and current Chair of Ashoka
  • Michel Rocard, former French Prime Minister
  • Kamal Hossain, founder of Kamal Hossain; Associates, principal author of the Constitution of Bangladesh, first Law Minister of Bangladesh, former Foreign Minister of Bangladesh, former Chairman of the Transparency International advisory council
  • Jagdish Sharan Verma, former Chief Justice of India and former Chair of the National Human Rights Commission of India
  • James D. Wolfensohn, former President of World Bank, Chairman and CEO Wolfensohn Fund Management, L.P.
  • Michel Camdessus, former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
  • Maria Nowak, President of ADIE (French pioneering NGO for microcredit)

 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

  • Liam Black, President of the Friends of Grameen Executive Committee, British Social Entrepreneur and Co-founder Wavelength Companies Ltd. 
  • Martin Hirsch, Vice President of the Friends of Grameen Executive Committee, Former French minister of poverty alleviation and now president of French youth civil service
  • Kerry Kennedy, Vice President of the Friends of Grameen Executive Committee, President of the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation of Europe and Chair of the Amnesty International USA Leadership Council and President of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights
  • Esther Duflo, Vice-President of the Friends of Grameen Executive Committee, Economist
  • Salman Khan, Vice-President of the Friends of Grameen Executive Committee, Founder of the Khan Academy
  • Jean-Luc Perron, Managing Director Greameen Crédit Agricole Foundation
  • Eric Lesueur, Treasurer of the Friends of Grameen association, Project Director Grameen Veolia Water
  • Emmanuel Marchant, Deputy General Manager danone.communities and Secretary of Friends of Grameen association

 

OTHER FOUNDING MEMBERS

  • Connie Evans, CEO, Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO) the association of microenterprise groups working in the US
  • Faisel Rahman, Founder and Director of Fair Finance
  • Hajiyeva Jahle, Chairwoman of Microfinance Center and Executive Director of Azerbaijan Micro-finance Association and Board member of the SEEP Network
  • Pamela Hartigan, Director of the Skoll Foundation, Said Business School, The University of Oxford
  • Jérôme Auriac, Founding Director of Be-Linked, business and community intelligence
  • Jean-Marc Borello, Head of Groupe SOS
  • Saskia Bruysten, CEO and Strategic Director of Grameen Creative Lab
  • Samantha Caccamo, Founder and CEO of Social Business Earth
  • Alex Counts, President Grameen Foundation
  • Frédéric Dalsace, Head of HEC chair for Social Business
  • Susan Davis, President BRAC USA
  • Emmanuel De Lutzel, vice President Initiative of Change NGO
  • Huzaifa Khorakiwala, Inspiration – Wockhardt Foundation movement
  • Vidar Jorgensen, President, Grameen America and Grameen Research
  • Krishan Khanna, Chairman, i Watch a not-for-profit Social Organization
  • Manoj Kumar, CEO Naandi Foundation
  • Laurent Laffont, Publisher of JC Lattès publishing house France
  • Paul Maritz, Grameen Foundation Chair and former #3 at Microsoft, current CEO of VMware
  • Susan McCaw, Former US Ambassador to Austria
  • Arnaud Poissonnier, Founding director of Babyloan micro-finance on the web
  • Pr. Masa Okada, Kyushu University, Head of GCL@Kyushu, Japan
  • Hans Reitz, Co-founder and CEO Grameen Creative Lab and head of Global Social Business Summit
  • Sam Daley-Harris, Director, Microcredit Summit Campaign
  • Jean-Michel Severino, Former head of AFD, French Agency of Development and now head of I&P, a development fund for small enterprises in Africa
  • Shekhar Kapur, Film Maker / Direction
  • Thierry Sibieude, Chair of Social Entrepreneurship at ESSEC Business School
  • Yeardley Smith, Actress
  • Nick Stace, CEO CHOICE, Australian social enterprise for consumers
  • Unni Beate Sekkesæter, Managing Director, Microfinance Norway (NCN)
  • Erika Watson, Founder of Prowess and Full Circle Fund
  • Marian Wright Edelman, Founder of the Children’s Defense Fund
  • Mel Young, Founder and President, Homeless World Cup
  • Jan Evers, Evers and Jung Director
  • Klaas Motenaar, President European Microfinance Network and General Director Triodos Facet BV
  • Dr. Zasheem Ahmed, Founding Director of The Centre for Development (CfD) Scotland, and Managing Editor of the new international journal – The Journal of Social Business (JSB)
  • Pr. Pamela Gillies, Principal and Vice Chancellor, Glasgow Caledonian University

 

PARTNERS