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

Benjamin Stone is managing director and general counsel of MCE Social Capital, an 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 served as a corporate litigator at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP;  was co-founder and CEO, and is now vice chair, of the lifestyle brand Indego Africa; and a director at American Express inventing and deploying initiatives to spur high-growth entrepreneurship in the United States. He is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations and in 2016 was honored as a “Top Ten Thirty-Something” by the Association of Corporate Counsel.