Boulder Institute of Microfinance

Richard L. Meyer is Professor Emeritus at The Ohio State University with experience in microfinance, rural financial markets and rural nonfarm and microenterprises in developing countries. He has worked extensively on international projects, including long-term residence in Brazil and Thailand, where he served as Chief of Party for USAID projects.

He was OSU University Director of International Programs and Rural Finance Director for contracts and cooperative agreements funded by AID, Project Leader for several AID projects, and is a consultant to AID, ADB, FAO, GTZ, IFAD, and The World Bank.

He has authored many journal articles, book chapters, papers, policy documents and other publications and has made presentations at professional meetings on the subjects of rural finance, microfinance, deposit mobilization, rural household behavior and labor supply, rural nonfarm enterprises, and economic development.

He is co-author of The Triangle of Microfinance: Financial Sustainability, Outreach and Impact and Rural Financial Markets in Asia: Policies, Paradigms, and Performance. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on agricultural finance and economic development, a training module on rural and agricultural finance in the Boulder Microfinance Training Program, and a short course on impact analysis in the Microfinance Master’s program of the Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy.