NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Gary Ford is CEO of MCE Social Capital, a nonprofit impact investing firm that uses a pioneering loan guarantee model to generate economic opportunities for hundreds of thousands of people in more than 30 countries. He has also served as the managing principal of a Washington, D.C., law firm, as ERISA counsel to the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, and as the general counsel of the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. He is a member of the Investment Advisory Committee for the Sarona Frontier Markets Fund, and the board of directors of the Synergos Institute and the Global Philanthropists Circle.