Boulder Institute of Microfinance

With 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 the 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 specializations include institutional development, product development, and assessment and analysis of microinsurance programs.

He has written extensively on microinsurance – including as a co-author of the book “Making Insurance Work for Microfinance”, a contributor of several sections of the book “Protecting the Poor: A microinsurance compendium”, and a co-author of “The Landscape of Microinsurance in the World’s 100 Poorest Countries”. He has researched, evaluated, and authored numerous microinsurance case studies and country pre-feasibility 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.