Staff

Bolivia

Doug Parkerson
Country Director
Oversees IPA activities in Bolivia

Martin Rotemberg
Project Associate

Ghana

Kelly Bidwell
Country Director
Oversees IPA activities in Ghana

Rob Fuller
Project Coordinator

Matt Hoover
Project Coordinator

Elana Safran
Project Associate
Projects: Examining Effects of Crop Price Insurance for Farmers in Ghana

Honduras

Jennifer Severski
Project Coordinator

Kenya

Karen Levy
Country Director
Manages IPA's activities and presence in Kenya including a 60 person team of local and ex-pat staff.

Mali

Nouhoum Traore
Project Coordinator

Mexico

Kerry Brennan
Project Associate
Projects: Interest Rate Sensitivity among Village Banking Clients; Impact of Microcredit for Women in Mexico

Kyla Levin-Russell
Project Coordinator
Reducing Childhood Obesity through Economic Incentives

Julio Luna
Project Associate
Projects: Inviting Husbands to Female Microcredit Groups

Nathan Paluck
Project Associate
Projects: Emergency savings accounts for remittance receivers in Oaxaca

Ashley Pierson
Project Coordinator
Projects: Mentoring Micro-, Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs)

Asya Troychansky
Project Associate
Projects: Impact of Microcredit for Women in Mexico

Anna York
Country Director
Oversees IPA activities in Mexico

Pakistan

Lalchand Luhana
Project Coordinator
Project: Targeting the Ultra-Poor with Microfinance

Peru

Kartik Akileswaran
Project Associate

Tania Alfonso
Country Director
Oversees IPA activities in Peru, including projects such as: Impact of Microcredit in Rural Areas; Using Encouragement to Overcome Psychological Barriers to Saving; Valuing Trust in Poor Communities; Psychological Responses to Microfinance Loan Recovery Strategies

Alex Bartik
Project Associate

David Bullon-Patton
Project Associate

Lucia Franzese
Project Associate
Projects: Spousal Cosigning Requirement as a Barrier to Female Access to Credit

Giordano Palloni
Project Associate
Projects: Interest Rates and Impact of Microfinance in Rural Peru

Silvia Robles
Project Associate
Projects: Valuing Trust in Poor Communities in Peru, Credit with Health Education in Peru

Philippines

Kate Auriemma
Project Associate

Natalie Chun
Project Coordinator
Oversees design and implementation of various projects throughout the Philippines.

Genevieve DeGuzman
Project Coordinator
Projects: Comparing group vs. individual liability lending; Impact of financial training for microfinance clients.

Eula Ganir
Survey Assisstant
Assists Survey Manager in implementing the financial diary survey for the credit scoring project

Tomoko Harigaya
Country Director
Oversees IPA activities in the Philippines

Mark Miller
Project Coordinator
Manages data analysis for Philippines projects.

Meredith Startz
Project Associate

Rean Zarsuelo
Project Associate
Projects: Psychological experiment on commitment savings, Credit scoring for microloans, Price sensitivity to microloans

South Africa

Luke Crowley
Project Coordinator
Projects: Impact evaluation of microfinance, Credit scoring for microloans, Psychological experiment on commitment savings, Price sensitivity to microloans

Uganda

Sara Lowes
Project Associate
Projects: Microinsurance and Technology Adoption

Pia Raffler
Project Coordinator
Projects: Microinsurance and Technology Adoption

United States - New Haven office

Lisa Carter
Office Manager

Ya-Ting Chuang
Project Coordinator
Stata programming and data analysis

Kareem Haggag
Project Associate

Daiva Latifi
Assistant Bookkeeper

Wendy Lewis
Human Subjects Coordinator

David Lindsay
Bookkeeper

Rebecca Lowry
Project Coordinator
Coordinates financial education research.

Bram Thuysbaert
Project Director

United States - New York

Alissa Fishbane
Project Director
Manages the design and implementation of health impact evaluations.

Elizabeth Koshy
Project Associate
Designs surveys for new projects and conducts data analysis on existing projects.

Sidney Povall
Project Director
Manages administrative and financial integration of IPA research network. Currently also serving as Director of Finance and Administration.

United States - Washington, D.C.

Nathanael Goldberg
Project Director
Manages new project development and implementation





  Microfinance Initiative


Microfinance institutions provide access to financial services for millions of poor people around the world.

Yet many remain unreached. Countless potential clients live in the “backyards” of microfinance institutions, yet they do not or can not receive the services provided by the new banks. Why?




  Highlighted Projects


Microfinance Impact
South Africa
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