Prof. Deborah Burand directs the International Transactions Clinic that she cofounded at the Law School in 2008. She writes and lectures on issues related to international finance, microfinance and microfranchise, impact investing, social finance innovations such as social impact bonds and crowdfunding for social enterprises, and developing sustainable businesses at the base of the economic pyramid. Burand took a leave of absence from the Law School in 2010-2011 to serve as general counsel to the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the development finance institution of the United States. Prior to joining the Law School faculty, she worked in the microfinance sector, most recently as executive vice president of strategic services at Grameen Foundation, a global microfinance network. Earlier in her career, she worked as a senior attorney in the international banking section of the Federal Reserve Board’s legal division, and at the U.S. Treasury Department, first as the senior attorney/advisor for international monetary matters and later as the senior advisor for international financial matters. She also worked in private practice at the law firm, Shearman & Sterling.

Kim Wilson has worked in microfinance for two decades, first as a practitioner with Working Capital, which won the Presidential Award for Excellence, and then later as an advisor and consultant to various international organizations. She helped launch Microstart of the United Nations Development Program, which led her to many overseas assignments in microfinance. She then became the Director of Microfinance at Catholic Relief Services. Since then she has worked with Aga Khan Foundation, Gates Foundation, Mastercard Foundation and CGAP as well as private sector firms. . Prior to her tenure in microfinance, she was the Managing Partner of a Boston-based venture capital firm specializing in commercial franchising. She is a Lecturer at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-author of the book: Financial Promise for the Poor: How Groups Build Microsavings (Kumarian Press). She is a visiting fellow of the Feinstein International Center as well as a Senior Fellow at the Center of Emerging Market Enterprises (both of Tufts University). She oversees Fletcher’s Leadership Program in Financial Inclusion – a Fellowship for financial policymakers and regulators in emerging markets.

Sheila Leatherman is a research professor at the School of Global Public Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She conducts research and policy analysis focusing on quality of care, health systems reform, methodologies for evaluating the performance of health care systems, and integrating microfinance and community health interventions for poverty reduction. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

In the international field of health care quality and health systems strengthening, she worked as an independent evaluator of the impact of government reforms on quality of care in the National Health Service of the UK earning her the honor of Commander of the British Empire (CBE) from Queen Elizabeth. She works with a variety of countries advising on the development of national quality agendas, including the US, UK, South Africa, Qatar, Singapore, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Ethiopia, Canada, and Australia.

Her second area of focus is the emerging field of integrating microfinance and income generation with community health interventions for poverty reduction and to promote health. Her extensive work in this field has led her to investigate and advise on research and implementation projects in countries such as India, Philippines, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania Nicaragua, Bolivia, Peru, Benin and Cambodia.

Dr. Gabriela Salvador is the senior director of microfinance and health protection at Freedom from Hunger. She has more than 15 years of experience working in the public and private health sectors as a both a medical doctor and public health practitioner, designing and implementing high impact health programs that target very low-income women and children around the world. She has served in a variety of senior management, public health, and academic positions, and continues to work as an advisor for various local and international organizations. Originally from Salta, Argentina, Dr. Salvador studied medicine at the National University of Córdoba and finished her residency in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Later she completed a surgical fellowship at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Salvador also earned a Master of Public Health in the area of Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Salvador lives in Lexington, Massachusetts with her husband and two children.