Jonathan J. Morduch
Professor of Public Policy and Economics
Jonathan Morduch is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at New York University's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He is also Managing Director of the Financial Access Initiative (http://www.financialaccess.org). His research focuses on international development, poverty and financial access.
Morduch is co-author of The Economics of Microfinance (MIT Press 2005, 2nd edition 2010) and Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day (Princeton 2009; http://www.portfoliosofthepoor.com). Morduch has taught on the Economics faculty at Harvard University, and has held fellowships or visiting positions at Stanford, Princeton, and the University of Tokyo.
Morduch has been chair of the United Nations Committee on Poverty Statistics and been a member of the UN Advisors Group on Inclusive Financial Sectors and the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Financial Empowerment. He advises Pro Mujer and the Grameen Foundation and is a member of SafeSave in Dhaka and the Editorial Boards of the World Bank Economic Review, Journal of Economic Perspectives, and Journal of Globalization and Development. He holds a BA from Brown and Ph.D. from Harvard, both in Economics. Morduch was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in December 2008 in recognition of his work on microfinance.
