Panelists: Innovations in Microfinance

Roger Frank
Managing Director
Developing World Markets

Roger Frank is an emerging markets veteran, having traveled and worked in over 40 countries. He has been instrumental in raising over $1 billion in primary and secondary transactions for emerging markets companies in Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Pakistan and India.

Prior to joining DWM he helped introduce many emerging markets to top-tier investment firms and their clients. Starting on Wall Street in the late 1980s, when overseas equity investing was just beginning and emerging market investing was non-existent, he traveled to, researched and sold emerging market and international equities to US-based institutional investors from positions at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup, Schroders, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Lazard. During his tenure in emerging markets he has witnessed first hand the impact of numerous currency devaluations, political coups, natural disasters, social transformations as well as guerilla warfare.

After an extensive tour behind the iron curtain, he got an MBA in Finance and International Business from New York University Stern School of Business where he was also President of The Urban Business Assistance Corporation, a student run company that provided consulting and educational services to minority entrepreneurs. He also holds a BFA, cum laude, from the University of Delaware and speaks conversational German and Spanish.

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