Yves Moury

Yves Moury is a 2014 recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. He is the Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Fundación Capital, an international non-profit social enterprise, a changemaker aiming at massive asset-building and enhancement for the Poor by integrating community practice, public policies and private markets to achieve results at significant scale.

Mr. Moury is an Economist and Management Engineer from the University of Louvain’s School of Management in Belgium, where he studied Management, Finance, Banking and Computer Science, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Development Finance, Development Sociology.

Most of his professional career has been focused on poverty reduction, worldwide, as a consultant, entrepreneur and social entrepreneur: he worked in Europe, Africa, Asia and more extensively in Latin America and the Caribbean. He also serves as CEO of Edge Finance – YMI S.A., a consultancy, focusing on small business banks and microfinance institutions reengineering and mergers, and financial assets building issues. He has long been director of Caja Rural de Ahorro & Crédito Los Andes, a regulated rural bank in Peru, serving low and very low-income clients.

He also put his business skills to social use, working on market-led services for the poor, socially-oriented investment funds and venture capital initiatives for social businesses and small business banks.

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