Beatriz Armendariz, a well qualified professional, holds years of experience in serving as a Lecturer at several prestigious educational institutions. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico (ITAM), Mexico.

1. Beatriz Armendariz, a well qualified professional,
holds years of experience in serving as a Lecturer
at several prestigious educational institutions
Beatriz Armendariz, a well qualified professional, holds
years of experience in serving as a Lecturer at
several prestigious educational institutions. She holds
a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Instituto
Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico (ITAM), Mexico.
She later joined the University of Cambridge, UK, and
thereby completed her M. Phil in Economics in 1986.
Besides, she also holds a doctorate in Economics
from EHESS, Paris, France, with Dissertation on
Foreign Debt Negotiations: An Historical and
Theoretical Analysis.

2. Beatriz Armendariz is a Research
Fellow
Beatriz Armendariz is the Founding Member of
Grameen Credit Agricole Microfinance
Foundation, Paris, and also serves on its
Board of Directors. Apart from this, she is a
Research Fellow and Member of the Scientific
Committee for the Center for European
Research in Microfinance (CERMi). From 2010
to 2011, she served as a Senior Lecturer in
Economics, University College London, United
Kingdom. Besides, she was also a Lecturer in
Economics at Harvard University, USA.

3. Beatriz Armendariz has held several
prominent positions at several reputed
educational institutions.
Over the course of her career, Beatriz Armendariz has held
several prominent positions at several reputed
educational institutions. From 2007 to 2008, she was a
Visiting Professor at Solvay Brussels School of
Economics, Business, and Management, Université Libre
de Bruxelles. Brussels, Belgium. Apart from this, she
served as a Research Associate for the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),
Development Centre, Paris, France, from 1989 to 1991.
Besides, Beatriz also worked as a Teaching Assistant at
ITAM; Research Officer at INEGI (Mexico); Visiting Scholar
in Economics Department of MIT, Cambridge; Lecturer in
Economics at London School of Economics; Visiting
Professor at Toulouse School of Economics (France); and
as Lecturer in Economics at University College London,
UK.

4. Beatriz Armendariz has significantly
contributed in a large number of
publications.
Beatriz Armendariz has significantly contributed in a
large number of publications. She co-authored The
Economics of Microfinance, First Edition (2005), and
Second Edition (2010), with Jonathan Morduch. Apart
from this, along with Ariane Szafarz, she has made a
significant contribution in the paper, Microfinance
Mission Drift? This paper highlights the poorly
understood phenomenon in microfinance which is
often referred to as a mission drift, i.e. a tendency
reviewed by several microfinance institutions to
extend larger average loan sizes in the process of
scaling up.

5. Conferred Brains Back in
Brussels Research Grant
Beatriz Armendariz was conferred the Brains
Back in Brussels research grant by the
Government of Brussels, Belgium. Besides,
she is also the (2006-2007) recipient of the
Raul Bailleres Academic Award, given by ITAM
Mexico, D.F., Mexico.

6. Thank You!