“Microfinance is generating a lot of excitement all over the world, and this is simply because… it works!” These are the enthusiastic words of Robert Peck Christen, Director of Financial Services for the Poor at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a man who can capitalize on over 25 years of experience in leading the development of the microfinance sector and who is the mastermind of the Microfinance Training Program (MFT), which starts today in Turin, Italy, and is hosted for the fourth consecutive year by the International Training Centre of the ILO.