2. Beatriz Armendariz – Founding Member
Of Grameen Credit Agricole Microfinance
Foundation
Beatriz Armendariz is a highly qualified individual, with
vast amount of experience working as a Lecturer in
several leading educational institutions. She is the
Founding Member of Grameen Credit Agricole
Microfinance Foundation, Paris and serves on its Board
of Directors. She is also a Research Fellow and
Member of the Scientific Committee for the Center for
European Research in Microfinance (CERMi). Her
current academic positions are Senior Lecturer in
Economics at the University College London, UK (2010
to 2011), and Lecturer in Economics at Harvard
University, USA (2010 to 2011).
3. Academic background
Beatriz Armendariz attended ITAM, Mexico to
pursue her Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics
(1984) and thereafter enrolled at the University of
Cambridge, UK (1986) to complete her M. Phil in
Economics. She also holds Ph.D in Economics from
EHESS, Paris, France, with Dissertation on “Foreign
Debt Negotiations: An Historical and Theoretical
Analysis”.
4. Professional experience
Throughout her career, Beatriz Armendariz has held
several prominent positions at different educational
institutes. She served as Teaching Assistant at ITAM;
as Research Officer at INEGI (Mexico); as Visiting
Scholar in Economics Department of MIT, Cambridge;
as Lecturer in Economics at London School of
Economics; as Visiting Professor at Toulouse School of
Economics (France); and as Lecturer in Economics at
University College London, UK. From 2000 to 2002, she
served as a Research Fellow at the Center for
International Development, Harvard University, and then
as Senior Lecturer in Economics at University College
London, UK.
5. Publications
Beatriz Armendariz co-authored The Economics of Microfinance,
First Edition (2005), and Second Edition (2010), with Jonathan
Morduch. Her forthcoming books are The Handbook of
Microfinance, with Marc Labie, and The Economics of
Contemporary Latin American Economy, with Felipe Larrain.
Currently, she is working on various field projects, most notably
on Environmentally-friendly Rural Farming in Burundi, with
Ephrem Niyongabo of Universite de Mons, Belgium. Some
publications by Beatriz Armendariz are “Gender Empowerment
in Microfinance”, joint with Nigel Roome; “Peer Group Formation
in an Adverse Selection Model”, with Christian Gollier, The
Economic Journal; “Microfinance Beyond Group Lending”, with
Jonathan Morduch, The Economics of Transition; and more.
6. The Recipient of various
grants and awards
In 2009, Beatriz Armendariz received “Brains Back in
Brussels” research grant from the Government of
Brussels, Belgium. In addition to this, she also won
Raul Bailleres Academic Award” given by ITAM
Mexico, D.F., Mexico (2006-2007).
