Gil Crawford is the Co-founder, Board member, and Investment Committee Chair of MicroVest. Gil has been involved in all phases of MicroVest’s growth since its founding in 2003, including the launch of the first North American-based private investment vehicle focused on microfinance.

Prior to founding MicroVest, Gil worked in the Latin American Financial Markets Division at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and prior to that, he founded the Seed Capital Development Fund (SCDF), a U.S.-based nonprofit that raised funds for microfinance institutions. Prior to founding SCDF, he worked for the Africa Venture Capital Project and Chase Manhattan Bank. Early in his career, Gil spent time overseas with the Red Cross in Chad and the U.S. State Department in Guinea.

Gil previously served on the Boards of the Tunisian American Enterprise Fund; the American Capital Senior Floating, a NASDAQ-listed investment management company; AfricInvest Private Credit Finance; and Lumni, Inc. He also served as a member of the Steering Committee for the Agriculture Finance Support Facility, a joint initiative between the World Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Treasurer of Joseph’s House, a Washington, D.C.-based AIDS hospice; and a board member at DC Central Kitchen.

• M.A., Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
• B.A., Bates College