Boulder Institute of Microfinance

Short Biography Mr. Reille is a senior member of the CGAP management team.

He is the director of a major G8 initiative to scale up microfinance in the Arab world chaired by Queen Rania of Jordan and head of CGAP transparency programs. Xavier Reille is the founder of the Microfinance Gateway, the leading microfinance online portal in the world.

He is also Chairman of the Microfinance Information eXchange (MIX), often referred as the Bloomberg of microfinance, sponsored by CGAP, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup. Before joining CGAP, Mr. Reille worked with Catholic Relief Services (CRS), where he was the Regional Microfinance Adviser for Southeast Asia.

During his three-year assignment with CRS, he set up a major investment company for rural banks in Indonesia. Prior to CRS, he was Operations Director at Société d'Investissement et de Développement International (SIDI), where he played a role in the creation of ProFund (an $23 million equity fund for microfinance institutions in South America) and the development of Centenary Bank (a commercial microfinance bank in Uganda).

Mr. Reille has a master's degree in international finance from the University of Paris. He is fluent in French, Spanish, and English, and speaks Bahasa Indonesia. Mr Reille has authored several publications in the area of audit and ratings, interest rate policy and technology.