Centre for Finance and Development
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 Centre for Finance and Development Logo | |
| Formation | 2012 |
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| Founders | Jean-Louis Arcand, Ugo Panizza |
| Headquarters | Geneva |
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| Fields | Development economics, International finance, Microeconomics |
Director | Nathan Sussman |
Key people | Ugo Panizza, Cédric Tille, Charles Wyplosz, Lore Vandewalle, Huang Yi |
Parent organization | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies |
| Website | graduateinstitute |
The Centre for Finance and Development (CFD) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies which is housed at the Maison de la paix in Geneva. The Centre is staffed by several prominent economists including director Nathan Sussman, deputy-director Ugo Panizza, Lore Vandewalle, Cédric Tille, and Charles Wyplosz.[1]
The Centre for Finance and Development was founded in 2012 with a grant of the Pictet Group Foundation for Development.[2][3][4] It was formally inaugurated by Harvard professor Ricardo Hausmann in September 2012. The Centre's first director was Jean-Louis Arcand.[5] From 2016, Ugo Panizza was director of the CFD, after which Nathan Sussman took over his role in 2019.[6]
Expertise
The Centre specifically focuses on research in the following fields:
- Financial inclusion and access to financial markets in developing countries;
- Impact investing and SDG investing;
- Scaling up investment in Small and Medium Enterprises in developing countries and SME finance;
- Fintech and technological developments in developing countries;
- Alternative sources of funding (microfinance or microinsurance);
- Sustainable development.[7]