Grameen Foundation Advisory Council

The Grameen Foundation Advisory Council is an advisory body of the Grameen Foundation, a group that provides microfinance in less developed countries.

Accessed December 2007:

• Rim Abboud - Vice President for Programs, Mosiac Foundation
• Fouad Abdelmoumni - President and CEO, Al Amana
• Harmohan Ahluwalia - Capital Markets Committee, Grameen Foundation
• Zahirul Alam - Managing Director, Integrated Development Foundation
• Aris Alip - Chair, Center for Advanced Rural Development
• Deepak Amin - Co-founder and CEO, Covelix, Inc
• Akhtar Badshah - Senior Director of Community Affairs, Microsoft
• Doug Barry - Partner, Selby Venture Partners
• Dipal Barua - Deputy Managing Director, Grameen Bank
• Nurjahan Begum - General Manager, Grameen Shikha
• Michael Callen - Former Board Member, Grameen Foundation
• Lynn Chia - Manager, Bearing Point
• A. K. Chowdhury - Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States, United Nations
• Bill Clapp - Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Global Partnerships
• Mrs. Trammell Crow - Trammell Crow Company
• John De Wit - Managing Director, Small Enterprise Foundation
• Xiaoshan Du - Founder, Funding the Poor Cooperative
• Mary Evslin - Chairman of the Board, Vermont Telecommunications Authority
• Vikram Gandhi - Head, Global Financial Institutions Group, Credit Suisse
• Tarja Halonen - President, Finland
• Joe Higdon - Philippines Advisory Council, Grameen Foundation
• Roz Hongsarangon - Capital Markets Committee, Grameen Foundation
• Maliha Hussein
• Mohammed Jameel - Chairman and CEO, Abdul Latif Jameel Group
• Shel Kaphan - Grameen Technology Council, Grameen Foundation
• Faisal Khan
• Darcy Kopcho - Philippines Advisory Council, Grameen Foundation
• Udaia Kumar - Managing Director, SHARE
• H. I. Latifee - Managing Director, Grameen Trust
• Matthew Lesnick - Attorney, Bingham McCutchen
• Erika Locke
• Craig McCaw - CEO and President, Eagle River
• Janet McKinley - Former Chair, Income Fund of America
• Rob Mechaley - Founder, RadioFrame Networks
• Erik R. Miller - Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
• Gary Mulhair
• Anand Narasimhan - Co-Chair, Voxiva
• Reed Oppenheimer - Founding Chair, Grameen Foundation
• Atif Raza
• Donna Rohling - Program Committee, Grameen Foundation
• Marshall Saunders - Founder and Managing Director, Grameen de la Frontera, Mexico
• Ismael Serageldin - Director, Library of Alexandria, Egypt
• Khalid Shams - Deputy Managing Director, Grameen Bank
• Pradeep Singh - Founder, Aditi Technologies and Talisma Corporation
• Clare Brett Smith - President, Aid to Artisans
• David Stevens - Co-founder, OnSat Technologies
• George Sycip - President, Halanna Management Corporation
• Delores Torres - Executive Director, Center for Advanced Rural Development (CARD) Philippines
• Ying Wang - Co-President, Carret China Opportunity Fund
• John C. Whitehead - Chairman, Goldman Sachs Foundation
• Patricia Young - Volunteer National Coordinator, World Food Day
• Roshaneh Zafar - Managing Director, Kashf Foundation