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of microcredit and microfinance. Our expert guests will rotate
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| Introducing
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Robert A. Annibale,
Citigroup Global Director of Microfinance.
Bob has assumed a newly created role as
Citigroup's Global Director of Microfinance. He leads
Citigroup's commercial relationships with microfinance
institutions, on a multi-business and multi-product
basis, providing financing and product partnerships
to institutions that serve the poor and the unbanked.
He joined Citibank in 1982. After a first assignment
in Greece, he held a number of senior treasury,
risk and corporate positions in Citigroup in
Athens, Bahrain, Kenya, London and New York.
Bob competed his BA degrees in History and Political
Science at Vassar College and his Masters Degree
in African Studies (History) at the University
of London, School of Oriental and African Studies.
He represents the Citigroup Foundation on the
Board of the Microfinance Information Exchange
and on the Council for Microfinance Equity Investors,
both in Washington. He also serves on a number
of external boards and councils, including the
University of London (Goldsmiths College and
the Institute of Commonwealth Studies), University
of Oxford's St. Anthony's College (Centre for
the Study of African Economies), and on the Africa
Policy Group for the UK Government's Foreign
and Commonwealth Office.
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