Boulder Institute of Microfinance

Timothy Lyman, Senior Policy Adviser, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP). Timothy Lyman joined CGAP full-time in 2005 following many years advising CGAP and various CGAP members on legal and regulatory policy issues in a consulting capacity.

He is a co-author of CGAP’s Guiding Principles on Regulation and Supervision of Microfinance. He has worked in community development for over 20 years in the U.S. and internationally, during much of this time as a partner of the law firm of Day, Berry & Howard and President of its affiliated philanthropic foundation, the Day, Berry & Howard Foundation, and, from 1994 to 2005, as principal outside legal counsel to Save the Children/US.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a law degree from New York University School of Law. He speaks English, French, Spanish, and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, as well as conversational German and Russian.