Biography

Jerry Grossman has over 10 years' experience and education in law and international development. A lawyer with a master's degree in International Relations, Jerry analyses legal and regulatory constraints to access to finance for the poor, drafts microfinance regulations, and directed the Microfinance Regulation and Supervision Resource Centre, an online database of microfinance-related legal and regulatory information developed through a collaboration between the IRIS Centre at the University of Maryland and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP). Jerry has recently undertaken investigations in a range of countries on the legal and regulatory environment affecting the provision of microfinance through innovative distribution channels, including mobile phone banking, and analysed inherent risks in the use of such models. His other legal experience includes analysis of international economic law (corporate and government) and public interest law.