Samuel Clause

Samuel joined the European Investment Fund in 2010 as a senior member of the microfinance team.

A mathematician and financer by training, his professional experience combines banking in project and leverage finance, two creations of companies - of which one social enterprise - and working for an NGO where he launched and led a team investing worldwide in MFIs. This vast experience acquired in a variety of situations concretized in the microfinance field where Samuel found his professional passion and is active since 2006. He now concentrates at EIF on the structuring of guarantees and funding transaction to foster the microfinance and social enterprises sector in Europe in the view to help creating more opportunities for vulnerable people and foster job creation in the continent. Samuel also represents EIF in a series of Board of Directors of MFIs and Funds and is a regular speaker on the microfinance and inclusive finance topic in a leading French business school.