FS Summer Academy

Our successful Inclusive Finance Summer Academy offers you the chance to select your "hot topic" not only in regards to technical knowledge but also management excellence.

General sessions: To give deeper insight in the most relevant topic, participants can choose on one out of four electives

•     The UN SDGs and the role finance plays in achieving them 
•     Gender finance: the need for disaggregated data
•     The Donor Perspective:  e.g. Social Impact Investing 
•     Climate and  Sustainable Energy Finance

Specialisation tracks:

•     Digital Finance 
•     SME Finance
•     Risk Managment
•     Housing Finance
•     Social Performance Assessment
•     Agricultural Finance

Inclusive financial services providers are undergoing rapid change. Many face increasing competition, tougher regulation or are branching out to embrace new market segments. The Inclusive Finance Summer Academy seeks to equip participants with deep technical know-how across five major themes:  Risk Management, Housing Finance, Digital Finance, SME Banking, Rural Finance, Human Resources and Social Performance Assessment. You will visit major German institutions related to your elective and develop a better understanding of current trends in emerging markets and developing economies.

The Inclusive Finance Summer Academy is:

• Individual: Participants choose from a wide range of technical, soft-skill and trend electives
• Profound: Sufficient time is allotted to complex technical subjects
• Interactive: The teaching methodology is based on lectures, group work, case-studies, discussions and presentations
• Real-world: Hand-selected faculty with many years of exposure in the field share their experience