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Gil Crawford is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of MicroVest, investment advisor specializing in pro-poor financial institutions. He is responsible for leading MicroVest’s investment operations and strategy since its founding in 2003. Before MicroVest Capital Management, Gil Crawford worked for the Latin American Financial Markets Division at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), focusing on commercial investments in microfinance institutions. Prior to joining IFC, Gil Crawford created and ran Seed Capital Development Fund, a US based non‐profit firm, which developed funds to capitalize microfinance institutions. Gil Crawford received his bank training at Chase Manhattan Bank in the mid‐80s after working for the Red Cross in Chad and the State Department in Guinea. He graduated from Bates College in 1980 and SAIS at Johns Hopkins University in 1983. He has since returned to SAIS to co-teach a finance course on impact investing. Gil Crawford is fluent in Englis
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- • 156 investors are based in Bethesda, Maryland, United States.
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