Dan is a deputy director in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Financial Services for the Poor initiative where he works to increase the poor’s access to digital payment systems. Dan is currently based in Seattle where he manages the FSP team’s Research & Emerging Technologies portfolio. He is a graduate from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Master in Public Administration in International Development program. Dan has worked on financial inclusion with the Centre for Micro Finance in Chennai, India and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor in Washington D.C. Prior to his work in financial inclusion, Dan was as a venture capital analyst in the Silicon Valley.