Dan is a member of the Centre for Micro Finance at IFMR, Chennai (www.ifmr.ac.in/cmf). He graduated from New York University with B.A. in Economics. Following graduation, he received a fellowship from Princeton in Asia to teach English at a community college in the Mekong Delta followed by work at an investment bank in Ho Chi Minh City. He then worked as a research associate for the microfinance consultancy Lipam International, where he assisted various microfinance equity funds. Dan is an editor and author of “Privatization in Transition Economies: The Ongoing Story,” a collection of articles on privatization in the 1990’s. He is also one of the authors of “Microfinance and Capital Markets: The Initial Listing/Public Offering of Four Leading Institutions,” published by the Council for Microfinance Equity Funds. He is currently working on a project in collaboration with Biswa and Stanford analyzing the health and economic impact of selling insecticide treated bednets through microfinance.