Dan is a Program Officer in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Financial Services for the Poor (FSP) initiative where he works on the development of mobile phone-based payment systems in developing countries. He is a graduate from the Harvard University / Kennedy School of Government’s Master in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID) program. Dan has worked on financial inclusion issues with the Centre for Micro Finance in Chennai, India and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) in Washington D.C. Prior to his work in financial inclusion, Dan was as a Venture Capital Analyst within Lehman Brothers’ Venture Capital Fund in the Silicon Valley.