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