2025 Annual CG Meeting Welcomes New Members; Focuses on Inclusive Finance and Resilience
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – June 11, 2025: CGAP welcomed seven new members to its Council of Governors (CG) during its 2025 annual CG meeting.
Held in Amsterdam, this year’s meeting was part of a CGAP Symposium focused on inclusive finance and resilience. It highlighted the urgent need for resilience strategies to go further to empower low-income communities to better manage the growing risks that they face and explored the significant role inclusive finance has to play in achieving this.
The CG serves as CGAP’s membership and governance body, with its members represented on CGAP’s Executive Committee, which functions as the organization’s advisory board. The CG comprises six constituencies categorized by organizational type: bilateral donor organizations (two constituencies), development finance institutions, foundations, private sector, and multilateral organizations.
The seven new members of the CG are Expertise France, the French Treasury, the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS), Luxembourg Development Agency (LuxDev), the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), the Swiss Investment Fund for Emerging Markets (SIFEM) and Swedfund.
“On behalf of CGAP’s Executive Committee, it’s an honor to welcome these seven new members, who will bring a diverse and invaluable range of fresh perspectives to CGAP’s work. We look forward to collaborating with their representatives,” said Henri Dommel, Chair of CGAP’s Executive Committee and Global Advisor, Financing Inclusive Digital Economies at United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF).
The annual CG meeting is a platform for members and partners to discuss CGAP’s strategic direction, review and approve work plans and budgets, and share knowledge on innovations and trends.
This year’s meeting was held during a global symposium hosted by CGAP, which brought together global advocates and key stakeholders at the intersection of financial inclusion and resilience. It included a call to action for inclusive finance to be integrated into resilience-building efforts to create more inclusive, adaptive, scalable, and sustainable solutions that align with broader development goals, as outlined in CGAP’s newly published Resilience Narrative.
Participants included financial service providers, policymakers, regulators, funders, investors, and resilience and financial inclusion professionals from think tanks, civil society, consultancies, and other organizations.
“In the face of escalating risks, building resilience for the most vulnerable is crucial,” said Sophie Sirtaine, CGAP CEO. “Inclusive finance is an indispensable tool for achieving this - it has the ability to empower low-income populations and MSEs to absorb shocks, build long-term adaptive capacity, and boost the effectiveness of national policies and programs. However, it is not yet being used to its full potential. To truly strengthen resilience strategies, local and global stakeholders must come together to scale inclusive finance and actively integrate it into their resilience-building efforts.”
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