Maria Nowak

Maria Nowak is a economist, born in 1935, specialist in the Microcrédit, president of the Association for the right on the initiative economic.

Economist

Maria Nowak was born in Poland in 1935. In 1943, it flees Poland which is occupied by the army Nazi, which fire its house, shoots or off-sets its family. She settles in France in 1946 with part of her family.

Graduate of the Institute of political studies of Paris (1956) and of the London School off Economics (1959), it carries out a study trip in Guinea and supports a thesis on the rural economy.

It enters to the central Case of economic cooperation, which will become the French Agence of development, where it specializes on the Africa. It becomes director of the policies and studies.

Introductrice of the microcrédit in France

In 1985, Maria Nowak meets an economist bangladeshi, the pr. Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and future Nobel Prize of Peace (2006). She decides to transpose to France this model of Microcrédit “to give a chance to excluded”. In 1989, it founds, with the moral support of Muhammad Yunus, the Association for the right on the initiative economic (Adie) of which it becomes president.

In 1991, it is detached with the the World Bank with Washington to take part in the development of the programs of microcrédit in Central Europe. It becomes also Co-founder of the Center of the microfinance of the Central and Eastern Europe.

Between 2000 and 2002, it is special adviser of Laurent Fabius, socialist minister for the economy of finances and industry.

In 2003, it constitutes the European Réseau of the microfinance (REM) and becomes about it also the president.

Maria Nowak is signet ring of the Order of Merit (1994) and the Légion of honor (1998).

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