Guy Stuart

Guy Stuart is a senior advisor to Microfinance Opportunities and a fellow at the Ash Center at Harvard University. He uses “bottom up” methods such as financial diaries and participatory research, to help microfinance organizations find the best ways to serve their clients. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago, and teaches and lectures widely on microfinance.

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Linking Financial Behaviors to Product Development

The Financial Diaries methodology is increasingly recognized by financial service providers and analysts as a powerful method to collect sequential, spatial, and social network data on economic transactions, to pinpoint drivers of uptake and to analyze usage trends.