Associates
David Porteous
David Porteous contributes synthesis research on regulatory policy, including research on regulatory laws and their impacts. He is the founder and principal of Bankable Frontier Associates, a niche consulting firm based in Boston, Massachusetts USA. He has undertaken consultancy assignments in the areas of housing finance, inclusive financial sectors and making markets work for the poor for a range of clients including the Affordable Housing Institute, DFID and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP). Prior to relocating from South Africa to Boston in 2004, he was active in executive leadership roles in the development finance sector of South Africa with private and public entities as well as an NGO and a public-private partnership. He has written several books including Banking on Change (DoubleStorey 2004), a book which chronicles and analyses changes in the retail financial sector of South Africa in the decade since democracy. David has a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from the University of Cape Town, Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Cambridge and a Phd in Economics from Yale. |
Michael Clemens
Michael Clemens is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development where he leads the Migration and Development initiative. His current research focuses on the effects of international migration on people from and in developing countries. Michael joined the Center after completing his PhD in Economics at Harvard, where his fields were economic development and public finance, and he wrote his dissertation in economic history. His past writings have focused on the effects of foreign aid, determinants of capital flows and the effects of tariff policy in the 19th century and the historical determinants of school system expansion. |