Eric Duflos

Senior Microfinance Specialist. Eric has over 15 years of experience in the area of providing access to financial services for poor populations. Since he joined CGAP in 2003, he has focused his work on policy issues and aid effectiveness. Eric has managed the Microfinance Donor Peer Reviews, the Country-Level Effectiveness and Accountability Reviews (CLEARs), and currently manages CGAP’s work on the broad role of government as well as advisory services for donors and investors. Eric leads CGAP’s work on national microfinance policies and strategies, apexes, and microfinance issues affecting populations in East Asia and China. He regularly teaches policy issues at the Turin/Boulder course and is a lead trainer for CGAP’s course for funders. He also teaches a course on microfinance at Sciences-Po, Paris. Before joining CGAP, Eric spent seven years in Laos, where he worked with UNCDF/UNDP, the World Bank, and the Central Bank to help set up microfinance institutions and establish conducive policies and regulatory frameworks. Eric has also worked in several countries including Cambodia, Haiti, Indonesia, Mali, Nicaragua, Madagascar, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. He holds a master’s degree in management from the Lyon EM and a master’s in economics and international relations from SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. A French national, Eric speaks French and English, and some German and Lao.