Victor Prevot, born in Nancy, France, is a specialist in the banking industry. Victor graduated from the IUP de Finances de Nancy, part of the Université de Nancy, with a Master’s in Retail Banking for Businesses. After a one-year apprenticeship with BNP Paribas, he was hired on full-time and stayed for two and half years as a Risk Analyst. At this point, he decided he wanted to focus his career internationally and decided to travel to Australia on a Working Holiday Visa to pursue his financial career there. However, things did not end up exactly the way he planned and he ended up working on a banana farm, where he learned manual work and high productivity requirements. With this hard-earned money, he enjoyed traveling around the country, but meanwhile realized it wouldn’t be easy for him to settle permanently in Australia. He then decided to go back to Europe for an job in investment banking at Crédit Agricole CIB in Frankfort, Germany. He stayed there for two years and used his free time to discover new areas of interest, taking advantage of the spread of MOOC courses. The Kiva Fellowship is the start of his journey to a career in microfinance.