Jurgen HAMMER is the Managing Director of SPTF, the international inclusive finance network and Standard Setting body for social performance management (SPM), in charge of the European office in Luxembourg.

From 2008 to 2019, Jurgen was Chief Risk Officer and Head of SPM at Grameen Credit Agricole Foundation (GCAF).

Jurgen’s involvement in financial inclusion started in 2006 at EFSE, an investment fund for the Balkans. In 2008 he managed the TA program at JAIDA, the investment fund for microfinance associations in Morocco.

Jurgen continued as an independent Board member of JAIDA until 2016. He also serves as an Independent Member of the Board at ACAD in Palestine.

He has over 15 years of experience in corporate and investment banking at Deutsche Bank, Senior Banker at Banco Santander and Co-Head of Fixed Income and Securitization at CACIB working with Sovereigns, FIs and Corporates in Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Jürgen holds an MBA in International Business from City University New York-Baruch, and a Master in Applied Economics from Paris University, Dauphine. Primary and secondary education in Germany.