Mr. Xavier Reille
Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP)

Mr. Reille joined the Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) in 1999. He is the leader of the Microfinance Industry Team and is responsible for the East Asia region. Mr. Reille is also the manager of the Microfinance Gateway and Managing Director of the Microfinance Information eXchange. Before joining CGAP, he 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 and developed a rating methodology for those banks. 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 equity fund for microfinance institutions in South America) and the development of Centenary Bank (a commercial bank in Uganda). Mr. Reille has a master’s degree in international finance from the University of Paris.