Consultants
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Daniel Altman, president
Experience: Founder, Emerging Design Centers; adjunct associate professor of Economics, Stern School of Business, New York University; director of thought leadership, Dalberg Global Development Advisors; economic adviser to Her Majesty's Government, United Kingdom; editorial writer and economics columnist for The New York Times, The Economist and the International Herald Tribune; author of Outrageous Fortunes: The Twelve Surprising Trends That Will Reshape the Global Economy, Power in Numbers: UNITAID, Innovative Financing, and the Quest for Massive Good (with Philippe Douste-Blazy).
Expertise: inclusive business, social enterprise, corporate social investment, product design for the base of the pyramid, global health, tax policy, economics of crime and drugs, unemployment insurance; global.
Education: A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. in economics, Harvard University -
Miguel Braun, adviser
Experience: Executive director, Fundacion Pensar; executive director, Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth, Argentina; assistant professor of economics, University of San Andres and University of Buenos Aires; advisor to the Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank and UNICEF; co-author of Argentine Macroeconomics.
Expertise: macroeconomics, fiscal policy, development, corruption; Latin America.
Education: Lic. in economics, Universidad de San Andres; A.M. and Ph.D. in economics, Harvard University. -
Lewis Chan, adviser
Experience: Partner, asset management firm in Hong Kong (name withheld); research fellow, China Center for Financial Research, Tsinghua University; adjunct associate professor of finance, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Expertise: macroeconomics, equity markets, forecasting, time-series econometrics; East Asia.
Education: B.A. in economics, University of Chicago; M.A. in economics, Columbia University; A.M. and Ph.D. in economics, Harvard University.
Non-executive board members
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Edward Miguel, director
Experience: Professor of economics, University of California at Berkeley; research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; research fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research; senior fellow, Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development; research affiliate, MIT Poverty Action Lab; author of Africa's Turn? and Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations (with Raymond Fisman).
Expertise: development, poverty, health economics, education; Africa, South Asia.
Education: S.B. in economics and S.B. in mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; A.M. and Ph.D. in economics, Harvard University. -
Francisco Perez-Gonzalez, director
Experience: Assistant professor, Stanford University Graduate School of Business; visiting assistant professor of finance, University of Chicago; visiting researcher, Central Bank of Mexico; staff economist, Council of Economic Advisors of the President and Ministry of Finance, Mexico.
Expertise: corporate finance, economics of organizations, entrepreneurship, governance, tax policy; Latin America and United States.
Education: B.A. in economics, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico; A.M. and Ph.D. in economics, Harvard University.