David Porteus
Founder & Director
Bankable Frontier Associates
David Porteous is the founder and director of Bankable Frontier Associates, a niche consulting firm based in Boston, Massachusetts USA. He has undertaken consultancy assignments in the areas of financial strategy and policy for a wide range of clients including public clients such as DFID, the World Bank, CGAP and private clients including a banking group and telco group.
Prior to relocating to Boston in 2004, he was active in executive leadership roles in the development finance sector of South Africa with private and public financial institutions as well as FinMark Trust, an NGO involved in promoting financial inclusion policies and projects, and a public-private partnership which sought to promote low income housing securitization.
He has written several books including Banking on Change, a book which chronicles and analyses changes in the retail financial sector of South Africa in the decade since democracy. He also writes a regular weblog, The Bankable Frontier (http://www.bankablefrontier.com /weblog/index.html), which tracks the development of inclusive financial sectors around the world.
David has a B.Comm (UCT), M.Phil (Cambridge) and Ph.D (economics) (Yale).
