John Hatch
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John Hatch is the founder of FINCA, one of the world's leading microcredit institutions with programs in 23 countries and over one million low-income families assisted since its inception in 1984. John is also known as the father of "village banking", a group loan methodology now replicated by over 800 micro-credit programs in 60 countries.
John previously served in Colombia as a community development volunteer for the Peace Corps, and then became a Peace Corps regional director in Peru. He continues to serve as co-founder and executive committee member of the Microcredit Summit global campaign to reach 175 million of the world’s poorest mothers with self-employment loans by the year 2015.