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ABOUT THE AUTHORSAnne Anderson is a professor of finance at Lehigh University. She is part of a dedicatedgroup of faculty at the university that has formed a Center for Microfinance at Lehighunder the auspices of the Martindale Center for Globalization. Anne worked on thecapital markets section of the paper.Bruce Campbell is a mathematician, statistician and software expert who specializes inmining large databases. He has worked with international poverty statistics andmicrofinance data sources on assignment for AfriCap. Bruce prepared the poverty tableson the four countries in which the MFIs operate as well as outreach data and projections.Zach Grafe is a graduate of Texas A&M University. He worked for ACCION asan intern in 2007. Among other things, Zach prepared the financial analysis tables ofthis paper.Daniel Kopf has worked with LIPAM International as a research associate this year andassisted on all aspects of this paper. Without his support the paper would not have beencompleted on a timely basis. Daniel is a graduate of New York University and has spenttime working in Vietnam and Ghana. He is presently working in India on a researchproject with the Chennai-based Centre for Microfinance.Ira W. Lieberman is the president of LIPAM International, Inc., an advisory firm thatworks with international institutions, governments and not-for-profit organizations. Iraadvised AfriCap on its re-capitalization to a $50 million equity fund. He is also chair ofthe Emergency Liquidity Facility for Latin America’s (ELF) Advisory Board and is onthe Board of the Calvert Foundation. Ira is the founder and first CEO of the CGAPSecretariat, which he managed from 1995–1999. He has also taught at the BoulderMicrofinance Training Program on Governance for MFIs and co-authored the CMEFpaper on governance with Beth Rhyne. He presently serves as an advisor to the CMEFand is a member of its Steering Committee.49