Antonique Koning

Microfinance Specialist. As a member of CGAP's Donors & Investors Team, Antonique works closely with donors and investors to help them improve the quality of their funding for microfinance. She focuses on issues related to responsible finance and is a member of the Social Performance Task Force Steering Committee. Antonique also coordinates CGAP's regional representatives in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. In the past five years she coordinated the European Union/African, Caribbean, Pacific States Microfinance Framework Program —a capacity-building program for microfinance actors in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific. Before joining CGAP, she worked with the World Savings Banks Institute. Antonique has a master’s degree in international trade management and policy from the University of Birmingham and a master's degree in applied economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. She speaks English, Spanish, French, and Dutch.