Professional Experience:
Dr. Vaillancourt has over twenty-five years’ experience in financial sector development work, including eleven years of program management in the field. He has been involved in a broad range of tasks within the sector, including:
- management and monitoring & evaluation of microfinance and SME access to finance programs in several countries;
- Conducting financial and/or integrity due dilgence/appraisals of MSME Financial Institutions;
- using digital finance solutions for government-to-person (G2P) COVID relief payments;
- Conducting financial sector analyses (particularly or micro- and SME [MSME] financial environments) in several countries;
- Conducting monitoring & evaluation of individual projects in three continents, and of ADB's entire SME finance portfolio (2005-15);
- Strengthening enabling environment for access to finance, including establishment of leasing legislation (Madagascar), advising government on moveable collateral registry (Madagascar and Philippines), advising government on Credit Bureau (Philippines), etc.;
- Had credit approval authority for microfinance loans (Georgia);
- Assessing prospects for weather index insurance projects in Philippines and Tajikistan;
Notable achievements include: strengthening the enabling environment for MSME banking in the Philippines; being responsible for a portfolio of over US$ 5 m. SME loans in Georgia, with a PAR>90 of 1%, raising over $6.7 m in grants and soft loans for FINCA’s microfinance programs; leading the design of a US$16m MSME component to a large IDA project in Madagascar; monitoring and evaluating a large number of financial sector projects for IFC, and contributing to improvements in IFC’s M&E approach to such projects. Led the Post-Disaster Needs Assessments for the financial sectors (including insurance) in the Philippines and Thailand.
Holds a PhD in international relations and trade, speaks English, French, Russian & Polish, and has worked on projects in twenty-four different countries spanning six continents.