Postdoc researchers at CERMi
Tristan Caballero-Montes
Tristan Caballero-Montes carried out a PhD at the University of Mons (Warocqué School of Business and Economics) under the supervision of Professor Marc Labie and Dr. Cécile Godfroid via a scholarship from the Fonds de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines (FRESH – FNRS). The topic of his PhD is “Financial inclusion and sectorial dynamics: Analysis of regulation, competition, and collective action in microfinance”. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Engineering from the University of Mons, and a Specialised Master in microfinance from Université Libre de Bruxelles, in 2019. He has working experiences in the field of microfinance through medium-term field research carried out at the Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA), and at the Tanzania Association of Microfinance Institutions (TAMFI), especially. Today, Tristan combines a professional activity related to performance management in a major hospital in the Charleroi Region, with academic projects and lectures at the University of Mons.
Email at Tristan.CABALLERO-MONTES@umons.ac.be
Cécile Godfroid
Cécile Godfroid is a teaching and research associate at the Warocqué School of Business and Economics (Université de Mons - UMONS) in management and organizational theory. She successfully defended her PhD in August 2018 at CERMi (UMONS) under the supervision of Professor Marc Labie. The topic of her PhD was “Human Resources in Social Enterprises: The Case of Microfinance Loan Officers”. Her doctoral research involved both quantitative and qualitative methodologies and was conducted in Senegal, Ethiopia and Columbia. In 2019, she was welcomed at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the USA and at the CERSEM (Center for Research on Social Enterprises and Microfinance) of the University of Agder in Norway for short-term postdoctoral stays. Her current studies are in line with the continuity of her thesis as she keeps working on topics related to organizational behaviour and human resource management in social enterprises and microfinance organizations. She also starts examining other topics in microfinance such as formal regulation of the sector or organizational strategies to cope with external shocks.