Microfinance Focus, September 15, 2011: Former Mexican President, Vicente Fox and Group Danone Chairman and CEO Franck Riboud will be speaking at the Global Microcredit Summit in Spain, November 14-17, 2011.

Vicente Fox will chair the plenary session titled "Challenges to the Field and Solutions: Over-Indebtedness, Client Drop-Outs, Unethical Collection Practices, Exorbitant Interest Rates, Mission Drift, Poor Governance Structures and More."

Group Danone Chairman and CEO Franck Riboud will join Muhammad Yunus on the Summit plenary titled "Social Business and Microfinance: Building Partnerships with Corporations and Other Entities To Speed the End of Poverty."

Danone, the global food industry giant, has joined Grameen Bank in a social business that provides low-cost, nutritious yogurt in the villages of Bangladesh to help combat malnutrition among poor children.

To see a list of all workshops and confirmed Summit speakers, click here.

To receive a 10% discount, register for the Summit online by September 30, 2011 using this code: MCSDIS