About

As Pro Mujer’s general counsel, Cesar Maita acts as the key advisor to the CEO and to senior leaders on legal, compliance and corporate governance matters for this leading women empowerment non-profit development organisation. Maita joined Pro Mujer in May 2016 as general counsel and brings over 15 years of international in-house legal counsel experience in the microfinance and development sector in Latin America. His career portfolio comprises of having worked at world, Latin America, EMEA and Asian headquarters of major profit and non-profit organisations. Demonstrating his value to the organisation, Maita was recently selected a winner of its internal award for the most extraordinary achievements prize 2017. Prior to joining Pro Mujer, he worked for eleven years at Oikocredit, a Dutch-based international financial development institution focused on empowering women through financing of microfinance institutions and agricultural organisations. Maita holds a law degree from the University of Lima, a LLM in International Business Law from Leiden University, a MBA from HES Amsterdam School of Economics and is currently following a PhD in Anthropology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He speaks Spanish, English, French and Italian.