Armando Laborde

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Overview

Armando has been the director of Ashoka Mexico and Central America since 2006. Before joining Ashoka, Armando Laborde was strongly linked to the microfinance movement in Mexico. He was the first Executive Director of ProMujer Mexico from 2002 to 2006 and part of the founding team of FinComun Community Financial Services, where he worked from 1994 to 1999. He was also involved in the fair trade movement by implementing a program for trading coffee in the Biosphere Reserve, El Triunfo, in Chiapas, Mexico. This program, having an environmental, social and economic impact, was developed with the organization Conservation International in alliance with strong trading partners such as Starbucks. Armando is a biochemical engineer and holds an MBA in Business Management from the Instituto Panamericano.