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John Hatch
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Founder and President
FINCA International
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Biography
John Hatch is the founder of FINCA, and creator of the village banking microcredit methodology. Currently serving as FINCA’s Director of Research, Hatch has also served as the foundation’s president, and as chief of party for village banking programs in Guatemala and El Salvador. Hatch previously served in Colombia as a community development volunteer for the Peace Corps, and then became a Peace Corps regional director in Peru. As a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, he won a Fulbright grant to conduct research on his doctoral thesis in Peru, where he spent two crop cycles (18 months) as a hired laborer working for 30 subsistence farmers and documenting their traditional agricultural practices. In 1976, Hatch and two partners formed an independent consulting firm, Rural Development Services (RDS). In addition to creating and overseeing the successful development of many of FINCA’s field programs, Hatch has taught village banking methods to numerous non-governmental organizations, with the result that today there are hundreds of village banking programs in worldwide.
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