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1st Prof Dr Hans Dieter Seibel Board member at European Microfinance Platform Cologne Area, GermanyFinancial Services Previous University of Cologne, Germany Education Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau 363 connections Send a messageMore options de.linkedin.com/pub/prof-dr-hans-dieter-seibel/6/129/953/ Contact Info ACTIVITY Prof Dr Hans Dieter Seibel is now connected to Peter Burgess, Founder/CEO at TrueValueMetrics 2 hours ago Prof Dr Hans Dieter Seibel is now connected to Yagyaraj Dhungel, Chairperson Janasachetan SaviCredit Cooperative Society Ltd. and Jose Linares Fontela, Marketing Trainer and International Consultant/Consultor Internacional y Profesor en Marketing 1 day ago Sirajul Islam endorsed the skills and expertise of Prof Dr Hans Dieter Seibel Prof Dr Hans Dieter is endorsed for Microfinance. Endorse Connections Like Comment 2 days ago Prof Dr Hans Dieter Seibel is now connected to Franklin Odoemenam, Development and Microfinance expert 2 days ago Prof Dr Hans Dieter Seibel is now connected to Sonia Reinhardt, Consultant for Microfinance Institutions at GLS Bank eG 10 days ago Prof Dr Hans Dieter Seibel is now connected to Maria Riaz., Asst. Manager Research and Communication at Alhuda Centre of Islamic Banking and Economics, David M. Dror, Founding Chairman at Micro Insurance Academy, New Delhi, and 3 other people. 14 days ago Prof Dr Hans Dieter Seibel is now connected to Mohammed Edris, Microfinance Specialist - MBA , CMP 17 days ago SEE MORE BACKGROUND SUMMARY Hans Dieter Seibel is a professor emeritus at Cologne University and a board member of the European Microfinance Platform. He also taught at the universities of Monrovia in Liberia, Princeton in New Jersey, Dortmund in Germany and Lagos in Nigeria. He is specialized on rural and microfinance, linkages between formal and informal finance, and agricultural development bank reform. He did his first survey research on self-help groups as financial intermediaries in 1967/68 in Liberia, followed by numerous projects, consultancies and studies of microfinance institutions and rural banks in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. In 1988-91 he was team leader of Linking Banks and Self-Help Groups in Indonesia, a joint project of GIZ and the central bank of Indonesia, which has also served as a model for the SHG banking program of NABARD in India. In 1999-2001 he was Rural Finance Advisor at IFAD in Rome and author of its Rural Finance Policy (2000). He recently studied various types of savings-led financial institutions and their resilience at times of crisis, among them village banks, savings and credit cooperatives and microbanking units of commercial banks. (www.hf.uni-koeln.de/34114) EXPERIENCE Board member European Microfinance Platform November 2006 – Present (6 years 5 months) Networking among microfinance actors in Europe and the developing world Professor (em.) University of Cologne, Germany 1980 – 2006 (26 years) SKILLS & EXPER