Author Bio
Michael Turner, Ph.D. is the founder, President, and CEO of PERC (Policy & Economic Research Council). He is a prominent expert on credit access, credit reporting and scoring, information policy, and economic development. Dr. Turner has worked on projects in over 25 countries on six continents. He has worked on projects for the OECD, the Inter-American Development Bank, the IFC, the CGAP, and US AID among others. He also launched the Asia-Pacific Credit Coalition and is a core group member of the Asia-Pacific Financial Forum (APFF) of APEC and serves as the APFF’s credit information sharing “Sherpa.” He is a plenary member of the International Committee on Credit Reporting on behalf of APEC/APFF. Dr. Turner received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in International Political Economy and his B.A. from Miami University in Economics. He was awarded a Yeck Fellowship from Harvard Business School and was awarded the Ashoka Foundation lifetime fellowship.