David Porteous, Bankable Frontier

David Porteous is the founder and director of Bankable Frontier Associates (www.bankablefrontier.com), a niche consulting firm based in Boston, Massachusetts USA. The firm specializes in three practice areas in the financial sector: the application of technology to financial services, housing finance and social performance measurement for financial institutions. Clients include telco and banking groups, financial regulators, bi-lateral donors, multi-lateral institutions and private foundations. He sits on the Strategy Committee of the CGAP Technology Program and the Vodafone-Nokia Social Impact of Mobiles (SIM) Panel.

In previous capacities, David has been employed in an executive capacity in public, private and public-private financial entities. All these roles have involved developing or supporting innovative approaches to the extension of financial services, including several m-banking initiatives. He has authored two books on financial services, The Geography of Finance (1994) and Banking on Change (2004) and numerous articles on the subject.

David has a B.Comm (UCT), M.Phil (Cambridge) and Ph.D (economics) (Yale).

He is married to Rebecca and has three sons.