Timothy Lyman
Senior Policy Advisor. Since 2005, Tim has led CGAP’s Government & Policy Team. In this capacity, he focuses primarily on regulatory and supervisory issues in financial inclusion. He is a co-author of CGAP’s Guide to Regulation and Supervision of Microfinance and began the group's pioneering Focus Notes series on branchless banking regulation. He co-chaired the Basel Committee’s Microfinance Workstream, which led to the publication in August of 2010 of Microfinance Activities and the Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision – the Basel Committee’s first ever guidance on a financial inclusion topic.
Tim also leads CGAP’s policy and regulatory work as Implementing Partner to the G20’s Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) and its predecessor, the G20 Financial Inclusion Experts Group, including CGAP’s input into the G20’s Principles on Innovative Financial Inclusion and leadership of the team that prepared the GPFI’s 2011 white paper Global Standard-Setting Bodies and Financial Inclusion for the Poor – Toward Proportionate Standards and Guidance. Tim has worked in the area of microfinance-related policy and regulation in every region of the world, and has been working in community development for over 25 years.
For much of his career, Tim was a partner in the law firm of Day, Berry & Howard (now Day Pitney) and served as president of its affiliated philanthropic foundation, the Day, Berry & Howard Foundation. From 1994 to 2005, he served as principal outside legal counsel to Save the Children/U.S. Tim holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a law degree from New York University School of Law.
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