Jaime Aristotle Alip
Jaime Aristotle Alip is a Filipino social entrepreneur, and the Founder and Managing Director of the CARD Mutually Reinforcing Institutions, a group of companies composed of a foundation, a bank, a micro insurance, a development institute, and a business development service. The companies were established to empower poor women on the countryside, to help alleviate poverty in the Philippines. CARD is the largest micro finance institute in the Philippines. Alip has won several awards for his work, such as the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay award in 2008 for public service. Alip was appointed as presidential adviser for Economic Empowerment of the Rural Poor in March 2011.
