TEDxAmoskeagMillyard - Michael Swack - Poverty and Wealth: The Unexpected

Michael Swack is a professor at the University of New Hampshire where he has appointments at the Carsey Institute and at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics. He has over 30 years experience in the fields of economic development, finance and development banking.

Dr. Swack was the founder and former Dean of the School of Community Economic Development (CED) at Southern New Hampshire University. Dr. Swack has been involved in the design, implementation and management of a number of community development lending and investment institutions both inside and outside the United States. He was the first Chairman and served for 17 years as a board member of the New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority (CDFA), a state-chartered equity fund for community economic development ventures and projects. He is the founding president and a current board member of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund. He was a founding board member of the National Association of Community Development Loan Funds (now the Opportunity Finance Network), a trade association of Community Development Finance Institutions, and a current member of the Community Development Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Since 2000 he has also directed the Financial Innovations Roundtable, a program that promotes new approaches and policies designed to build the field of community development finance and increase access to capital for community development intermediaries. Internationally he has been involved in development finance and microfinance work in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Dr. Swack has published in the areas of economic development, development finance, community investment and mission related investment. He received his doctorate from Columbia University, his master's degree from Harvard University and his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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