Mr. Peer Stein
Senior Investment Officer, CGFBA
International Finance Corporation
2121 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20433, USA

Mr. Stein is Senior Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation. He has also led the IFC's e-finance initiative for financial intermediaries. In this role, he works with financial institutions and state-of-the-art technology providers to adapt financial, information & communication technologies to the business needs of banks and non-banks in emerging markets and transition countries. Mr. Stein joined IFC in 1996 to establish the Corporation's Extended Reach Office in Mongolia. Subsequently, he moved to the Financial Markets Sub-Saharan Africa Department as an Investment Officer, focusing on financing urban and rural microfinance institutions, risk management facilities and credit lines for banks, and capital markets development. Prior to joining IFC, Mr. Stein worked in Germany as a management consultant in enterprise restructuring, and as a partner in a strategic market research firm covering Eastern Europe. He holds a Master's degree in Economics and Management Science from Witten/Herdecke University, Germany's first private university.