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Consultant Profile: Martina Wiedmaier-Pfister (Germany)

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Contact Details

Address: Alter Postweg 3
Ottobeuren
Germany
87724
Telephone: 49-8332-790419
Fax: 49-8332-923491
Email: wiedmaier-pfister@t-online.de
Total Relevant Experience: 20 years
Date Available for Work: 20 Jun 2006
Type of Work: All [short term & long term assignments]
Summary of Qualifications: - Commercial banker (10 years in German Cooperative Banks)
- since 1992 in Financial Systems Development (microfinance, rural finance, microinsurance)
- long- and short-term expertise in 14 countries
- project management, design of technical assitance, conceptualization of new support project, project evaluation
- regulation and supervision of microfinance and microinsurance, savings promotion, transformation of MFI
- microfinance support institutions (public and private)
- strong intercultural and advisory skills

Expertise

Main Areas of Expertise: Project evaluation
Country Experience: Laos
Languages Spoken: English
Nationality: Bolivia / China / Ethiopia / Germany / Ghana / Honduras / Indonesia / Laos / Mozambique / Peru / Sri Lanka / Thailand / Uzbekistan
Academic/Professional Qualifications: Diplom-Betriebswirtin (FH), equivalent to a Masters Degree in Business Administration, Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft Pforzheim Germany, 1986

Experience (2 select experiences)

Consultant, Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, Germany (Sept 2005 - 2008)
Analysis of concepts and country cases in terms of microinsurance regulation, supervision and policy issues
Development of several publications on Microinsurance Regulation, Supervision and Policy Issues
- in collaboration with the CGAP Working Group on Microinsurance (Subgroup Regulation, Supervision and Policy Issues) and the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, Basel (IAIS)
Mission Leader and Microfinance Expert, GTZ, Ethiopia (Sept. 2006 - early 2008)
Development of a Strategy for Access to Finance
Analysis of country situation (MFIs, cooperatives, donors, policy and regulatory framework, meso level)and implementation of road map for the development of a microfinance strategy for and with the National Bank of Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Association of Microfinance Institutions (AEMFI) and the Federal Cooperative Agency (FCA) on behalf of the Engineering Capacity Building Programme (Ministry of Capacity Building)
Leading a team of international and local experts

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