ICBA President

Mr Jean-Louis Bancel, Executive Vice Chairman of Crédit Coopératif (France)

Main contact : Imad TABET, Lobbying and Co-operative affairs Manager Crédit Coopératif
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He has a long association with the mutual insurance sector – he was CEO of Fédération Nationale de la Mutualité Française (FNMF) the apex body of French health mutuals, and before that,General Secretary of Groupement des Entreprises Mutuelles d’Assurance (GEMA). Jean-Louis was chairman of International Co-operative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF) development committee from 1999-2001 and last year stepped down after five years as ICMIF Chairman. For more than fifteen years, Jean-Louis Bancel, has been at the forefront of the movement. Bancel reflects on his time as chairman of ICMIF and offers his perspective on the benefits of mutuality.

ICBA Vice-President, President of ICBA Africa

Gideon Muriuki, Managing Director

Co-operative Bank of Kenya Ltd.
P.O. Box 48231, Nairobi, Kenya
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Gideon Muriuki started his career at the Barclays Bank of Kenya and moved thereafter to the Standard Chartered Bank as Manager for Global Corporate Banking. Mr. Muriuki joined the Co-operative Bank of Kenya in 1996 as Senior Manager responsible for Corporate and Commercial Banking. He was promoted to General Manager in 1999 and subsequently to Managing Director of the Bank. He now also acts as Vice-President and regional Chairman of the region of East, Central and South Africa for the ICBA.

ICBA Vice-President, President of ICBA Europe

Étienne Pflimlin, Chairman

Confédération Nationale du Crédit Mutuel
88-90, rue Cardinet
75017 Paris, France
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Has served as President of Crédit Mutuel Centre East Europe and of the Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel (BFCM) since 1985 as well as President of Crédit Mutuel since 1987, Vice-President of Groupement National de la Coopération since 1991, and Vice-President of IRU (International Raiffeisen Union) since 1992. He is President of the European Regional Committee of the International Co-operative Banking Association (ICBA) and Vice-President of the European Association of Co-operative Banks.

ICBA Vice-President, President of ICBA Middle East

Mohammed BENCHAABOUN, Chairman

Banque Centrale populaire
101, Bd. Mohamed Zerktouni,
B.P. 10 622, 20.000 Casablanca, Morocco
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Mohamed BENCHAABOUN  served as a director of strategy and development of Alcatel Alsthom Maroc from august 1984 until 1996; Director of Duane Administration until 1999 . General Director Adjoin of Banque Centrale Populaire until September 2003, and finally served as a Director of Agence Nationale de la Réglementation de Télécommunication since 2003. Today he is Président du Comité of Crédit Populaire du Maroc and vice Président of Confédération Internationale des Banques Populaires (CIBP).

Monique F. LEROUX
Chairman, Fédération des Caisses Desjardins du Québec
100 avenue des Commandeurs
G6V 7N5 Lévis(Québec), CANADA

Carlos HELLER
Chief Executive Officer, Banco Credicoop Cooperativo Limitado
Reconquista 484
1003, Buenos Aires, REPUBLICA ARGENTINA

Ranijith HETTIARACHCHI
Chief Executive Officer, Association of Asian Confederation of Credit Unions
3612, Soi 60 Ramkhamhaeng Road
Bangkapi 10240, Bangkok, THAILAND

P. A. KIRIWANDENIYA
Sanasa Development Bank
N° 106, Dharmapala Mawatha
Colombo 07, SRI LANKA

Suk-yun WOO
General Manager of Int ZI Banking dept National Agricultural - Cooperative Federation
75 chungjeong - no1ga, Chung gu
Séoul, KOREA

Eugeniusz LASZKIEWICZ
President National Union of Co-operative Banks
00-621 WARSAW
ul. Boya-Zelenskiego 6/22, POLOGNE

Milena BLAGOEVA
Managing Director, Central Cooperative Bank
103, G.S. Rakovski Str
1086 SOFIA, BULGARIA

M. Iain MACDONALD
ICA Observer
General Director
INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATIVE ALLIANCE

M. Pete Crear
ICBA Observer
Chief Executive Officer
WORLD COUNCIL OF CREDIT UNIONS INC.