David Porteous
CEO, Bankable Frontier Associates (BFA)
David Porteous has been involved in development finance internationally for more than two decades. He has held executive roles in public and private financial institutions in Africa, and is the founder and CEO of Bankable Frontier Associates (BFA), a consulting firm based in Boston. The firm provides specialist research, policy and strategy advice to financial providers, financial regulators and policymakers, bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors and private foundations around the world. BFA seeks to optimize return on its triple bottom lines of positive financial return, social impact on end-clients and building the knowledge base in the sector.
He received his bachelor’s degree in Accounting from University of Cape Town, and later obtained an M.Phil in economics from Cambridge and a PhD (Economics) from Yale.