Therese Sandmark

Thérèse Sandmark joined the Grameen Crédit Agricole Microfinance Foundation in April 2011 as the team’s agricultural micro-insurance officer. Before this, she was an independent micro-insurance consultant with a focus on the agricultural sector and social performance indicators. Prior to that, she was based in Nairobi for 2.5 years working as Program Officer in microfinance and microinsurance covering the East Africa region for the Swedish Cooperative Centre. Thérèse holds a MSc in Business and Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics as well as Master in Microfinance from the European Microfinance Programme at the Solvay Business School in Brussels.

 

By Therese Sandmark

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Top 7 Opportunities for Funders to Advance Microinsurance

The Microinsurance Network and its members have identified interesting opportunities for donors and funders, based on experiments already underway, to further galvanize the sector.
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Lessons from India on Weather Insurance for Small Farmers

With 22 million farms covered by a yield based index, 3 million by a weather index insurance and 340,000 farms covered by an insurance combining the two indices, India is probably today the most innovative and experienced country in agricultural index insurance in the world.