SVS hosted a social finance session at the GSEF2021 Mexico Forum

7th October, SVS hosted a self-organized online session on ‘the role of social finance and its future in the post covid19 era’ which took place at the Global Social Economy Forum 2021 Mexico (on-off hybrid forum). SVS invited leading social finance networks and institutions from various fields (impact investment, microcredit, cooperative finance, wholesaler and ethical bank) to share stories of different social finance models in responding to the covid19 crisis and to discuss the best strategies for transforming social finance systems in relation to accelerating trends of expanding platform economy and widening income-gap under the post-covid19 environments.

Moderator: SVS Foundation (President, Kyong Yong Song)

Panellists: Korea Community Cooperative Federation (Managing director, Yoo Yumi), Asia Venture Philanthropy Network (Chief of staff, Patsian Law), European Federation of Ethical and Alternative Banks (Project manager, Gian-Luca Gasparini), Grameen-Agricultural Credit Foundation (Director, Philippe Guichandut), International Cooperative Alliance (Program coordinator, Silvia Schiavon)

:: Download the program book which contains presentation slides of each panellist

:: Watch a full video of the session