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Pilar Ramirez Director FIE NAME: M. Pilar Ramirez DATE OF BIRTH: August 25, 1949 NATIONALITY: Bolivian ADDRESS: P.O Box 814 La Paz, Bolivia Phone: (591) 2- 710090 EDUCATION Master in Public Administration, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. USA, June 1984. Master of Arts, Psychology, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY, USA, June 1976. Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY, USA, June 1972. Bachiller en Humanidades, Colegio Saint Andrew'ss, La Paz, Bolivia, November 1967. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE FIE Private Financial Fund, President, August 1997 to date. World Bank, Resident Mission in Bolivia, Social Analysis and NGO Specialist February 1996 to August 1997. Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), La Paz, Bolivia, Project Officer, August 1993 to February 1996. . Centro de Fomento a Iniciativas Econo?Lmicas (FIE), La Paz, Bolivia, Advisor to the Executive President, July 1992 to February 1996. The Synergos Institute, New York, NY, USA, Director of Programs, May 1991 to July 1992. Centro de Fomento a Iniciativas Econo?Lmicas (FIE), La Paz, Bolivia, Director, Credit Program March 1988 to October 1990. Centro de Fomento a Iniciativas Econo?Lmicas (FIE), La Paz, Bolivia, Executive President, November 1985 to February 1988, date when institutional Policy determined that the responsibility of directing FIE be rotated to another FIE associate. Centro de Estudios y Servicios Especializados Sobre Migraciones Involuntarias (CESEM) Agency in Bolivia of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) La Paz, Administrative Director, July 1984 to October 1985. Centro de Estudios y Servicios Especializados Sobre Migraciones Involuntarias (CESEM) La Paz, Bolivia, Psychologist, August 1982 a July 1983. Fundacio?Ln San Gabriel, La Paz y Tipuani, Bolivia, Director, Mining Area Program, March 1978 to March 1980. Fundacio?Ln San Gabriel, La Paz, Bolivia, Psychologist, March 1977 to March 1978. Covenant House, New York, NY, USA, Counselor, January 1974 to July 1976. Various jobs as clinical psychologist in diverse public institutions of Bolivia (experience working with delinquent minors, children with learning disabilities, drug abusers, etc.) and other social work agencies, from 1972 to 1977. Psychotherapist in private practice March 1981 to June 1982. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Stanford University, Center for Latinamerican Studies, Palo Alto, California, USA, Adjunct Assistant Professor, October to November 1988 and 1989. Universidad Catolica Boliviana, La Paz, Bolivia, Thesis Supervisor, Business Administration Department, July 1989 to Abril 1991. Universidad Catolica Boliviana, La Paz, Bolivia, Adjunct Professor, Psychology Department, 1977 a 1983. Universidad Mayor de San Andre?Ls, La Paz, Bolivia, Assistant Professor, Business Administration Department, November 1979 to July 1980. CONSULTING Instituto Boliviano de Estudios Empresariales (IBEE), La Paz, for the Diplomate Course on Enterprise Direction and Management: Entrepreneurship, to be offered in October, 1999. Instituto Boliviano de Estudios Empresariales (IBEE), La Paz, The Transformation Process of Microcredit NGO to a Regulated Microfinance Institution, July, 1998. Ecumenical Church Loan Fund (ECLOF), La Paz, The Impact of Microcredit on Women Borrowers, La Paz, September, 1998. CLAVE Consultores, La Paz, Preparation of "Gender and Development" Training Materials for NGO Work in Urban Areas , March to June 1995. Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), La Paz, Bolivia Mid -Term Evaluation Mission of the Social Investment Fund, February and March 1993. Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), La Paz, Bolivia Identification of Projects to be Supported by the Agency in the Areas of Alternative Development and Water and Sanitation. April and May 1993. DANIDA/HABITAT, La Paz, Design of a Credit Program for Housing Improvement in Areas Affected by Chagas Disease. September to December 1992. DANIDA/HABITAT, La Paz, Consulting for the Creation of Pro-Habitat Foundation, January to March, 1993. Interamerican Development Bank, Venezuela, Project Preparation Assistance for a Small Loan in the following institutions: Fundacio?Ln Por Trujillo, FUDECO, Fundacio?Ln Eugenio Mendoza, Fe y Alegria. December 1989 and April 1990. Banco del Estado, La Paz, Evaluation of the Small and Microindustry Financial Assistance Program (PRAFINPIA). February 1990. Informes, SRL, La Paz, Various consumer behavior and preference studies. September 1980 to January 1982, February and March 1988. Ferrari-Ghezzi, Ltda. Oruro, Socio-Economic Study of the Labor Population of the Enterprise. February to April 1981. MEMBERSHIPS Member of the Policy Advisory Board of CGAP, June 1998 until June 2001. Member of the Board of the Ecumenical Church Loan Fund (ECLOF), Geneva Switzerland (1992 to 2001). Member of the Board of Asociacion Nacional Ecumenica de Desarrollo (ANED), La Paz November 1992 to date). Associate member of Centro de Capacitacio?Ln de la Mujer "Gregoria Apaza", La Paz, Bolivia (1994 to date). Founding Member of CRECER, The Freedom From Hunger Foundation program in Bolivia, May, 1999. Member of the Advisory Board of the MasterPs Program of Universidad Cato?Llica Boliviana/Harvard University, La Paz, Bolivia (1995 to date). Member of the Advisory Board of the International Program to Strengthen Human Resources in Microfinance Institutions (PRE/International), at FundaPro, La Paz, from July 1999. Member of the Harvard Club of Bolivia. LANGUAGES Spanish and English, fluent French, reading