Michael McCord, MicroInsurance Centre, USAWith extensive experience in banking, microfinance, and microinsurance, Michael J. McCord is the President of The MicroInsurance Centre; an organization dedicated to creating partnerships to provide specially designed and managed insurance products to low-income markets around the world. Michael combines experience as controller of a US commercial bank, CEO of an MFI in Uganda, Regional Director for microfinance programs in Africa, and now President of the MicroInsurance Centre, to provide a depth of knowledge on developing and managing microinsurance products. His specialisations include institutional development for microinsurance, new product development, and assessment and analysis of microinsurance programs and country potential. He has written extensively on microinsurance – including as a co-author of “Making Insurance Work for Microfinance” and the author of numerous microinsurance case studies. He is also the author of several other documents and manuals on subjects as varied as pilot testing, rollout, and the feedback loop for microfinance institutions, MFI accounting and analysis, and the function of laws. |