PHD in Economics and Finance, Renee Chao-Beroff is the founder and Managing Director of PAMIGA and PAMIGA FINANCE SA, an Investment Vehicle in rural microfinance for Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2019, at the merger of CIDR with PAMIGA, she became the CEO of CIDR Pamiga, an international NGO which ambition is to contribute to unlock the social and economic potential of rural populations in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Renee Chao-Beroff comes from the Financial Inclusion sector where she worked during more than 20 years, in the field, in remote rural areas and in poor peri-urban neighborhoods, and an advisor to public and private decision makers in policy and strategy, in many countries as well as to many donors. Today, with CIDR Pamiga, Renee Chao-Beroff aims at pushing the frontiers of Financial Inclusion even further into Impact Investment, Digital Platforms for Agricultural Value Chains and to address the challenges of Climate Change. She is co-founder and the first President of Wi-Agri, an one stop shop digital platform in Côte d’Ivoire, dedicated to agriculture value chains and to rural women.