Eric Duflos

Regional Representative for East Asia Pacific. Based in Singapore, Eric works to deepen CGAP's engagement in East Asia and the Pacific. 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 has led CGAP’s work on the role of government, national microfinance strategies, apexes, and East Asia. In the past few years, he has taught policy issues and microfinance at the Turin/Boulder course and at Sciences-Po, Paris. 

Before joining CGAP, Eric spent seven years in the Laos PDR, where he worked with UNCDF/UNDP, the World Bank, and the Central Bank to help set up microfinance institutions and establish conducive policies and regulations. Eric 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.